The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Tephrice

Also known as Tephrike, Divrigi

  • fortress
  • fortified

The Paulician stronghold in eastern Anatolia, Tephrike or Tephrice, near later Divrigi. Gibbon describes it as the heretical fortress-capital facing the Byzantine frontier.

Type
fortress
Style
fortified
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 247
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The Paulician stronghold in eastern Anatolia, Tephrike or Tephrice, near later Divrigi. Gibbon describes it as the heretical fortress-capital facing the Byzantine frontier.

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