Maximianopolis

MAXIMIANO´POLIS(Μαξιμιανούπολις), a town of Thrace, formerly called IMPARAor PYRSOALIS( It. Ant. p. 331), not far from Rhodope (Ammian. 27.4), and the lake Bistonis (Melet. p. 439, 2; It. Hieros. p. 603; Hierocl. p. 634; Const. Porph. de Them. 2.1; Procop. de Aed. 4.11; Conc. Chal. p. 96.)

MAXIMIANO´POLIS[CONSTANTIA]

MAXIMIANO´POLIS(Μαξιμιανόπολις), the classical appellation of the Scriptural Hadadrimmon ( Zechariah, 12.11) in the plain of Megiddo, 17 M. P. from Caesareia (of Palestine), and 10 M. P. from Jezreel, according to the Jerusalem Itinerary; consistently with which notice St. Jerome writes:--Adadremmom, pro quo LXX. transtulerunt Ποῶνος, urbs est juxta Jesraelem, quae hoc olim vocabulo nuncupata est, et hodie vocatur Maximianopolis in Campo Mageddon( Comm. in Zachar. l. c. ); and again,--diximus Jesraelem, quae nunc juxta Maximianopolin est(in Hos. 1). It is placed in the civil and ecclesiastical division of Palaestina Secunda, and its bishop assisted at the Council of Nicaea. (Reland, Palaestina, pp. 891, 892.)

(1) The later name of Porsŭlae in Thrace, east of Abdera.

(2) The Hadad Rimmon of the Old Testament; a town in Palestine in the valley of Megiddo.