07/11/2022
the Land of Fragrance is a Turkish spelling of Greek Sparta, by prothesis declustering.
Isparta was said to correspond to the ancient city of Baris, which is a namesake and was part of the Roman province of Pisidia. A later theory has it instead as the Eastern Roman fortress Saporda; in Muslim sources it appears as Sabarta. G. E. Bean characterized the situation thus: "These perpetually shifting conceptions leave the reader quite bewildered." Modern scholars locate Baris near Kılıç, in Keçiborlu district, Isparta province.
At an early stage, it became a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of the Metropolitan see of Antioch of Pisidia, the province's capital. The names of two of its bishops are known with certainty: Heraclius participated in the First Council of Nicaea in 325 and Leo in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. In addition, Paulus was at the Council of Constantinople (869), and Stephanus was at the Council of Constantinople (879). Still, one or both of these may have been of the Baris in the Roman province of Hellespontus. zemlja mirisa je turski način pisanja grčke Sparte, deklasteriziranjem proteze.
Rečeno je da Isparta odgovara drevnom gradu Barisu, koji je istoimeni i bio je dio rimske provincije Pisidije. Kasnija teorija kaže da je to istočnorimska utvrda Saporda; u muslimanskim izvorima pojavljuje se kao Sabarta. G. E. Bean ovako je opisao situaciju: "Ove koncepcije koje se neprestano mijenjaju ostavljaju čitatelja prilično zbunjenim." Moderni znanstvenici lociraju Baris blizu Kılıça, u okrugu Keçiborlu, pokrajina Isparta.
U ranoj je fazi postao kršćanska biskupija, sufragan Metropolitanske stolice Antiohije Pizidijske, glavnoga grada provincije. Sa sigurnošću su poznata imena dvojice njezinih biskupa: Heraklije je sudjelovao na Prvom nicejskom saboru 325., a Lav na Drugom nicejskom saboru 787. Osim toga, Pavao je bio na Carigradskom saboru (869.), a Stjepan je bio na saboru u Carigradu (879). Ipak, jedan ili oba od njih možda su pripadali Barima u rimskoj provinciji Helespontu.
