Geology / Earthquake

344AD

Event #98: Earthquake in Neocaesarea

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/98

Geographical sites:

  • Neocaesarea (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #857177)
    Pleiades_icon Kabeira/Neocaesarea/Diospolis/Sebaste/Hadriane settlement Geocontext: Niksar
    Description: An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 87 B4 Kabeira/Neocaesarea/Diospolis/Sebaste/Hadriane
  • Neocaesarea (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #668201)
    Pleiades_icon Athis/Neocaesarea settlement Geocontext: Dibsi Faraj
    Description: An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 68 F2 Athis/Neocaesarea

Citations:

Text #5736

Theophanes the Confessor. Chronicle
[p. 62]

342-343 AD: During a severe earthquake, Neocaesarea in Pontos was destroyed except the church, the bishop’s palace, and the pious men who were there. The Romans made war on the Persians and killed many of them.

Text #134

Jerome. "Chronicle"
[p. 320] http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_...

344 AD: Neocaesaria in Pontus destroyed, except for the church, the bishop and the other people that were found in that very place.

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