It is described by
Theophanes of Byzantium as situated in a plain between the two
Taurus Mountains, a description that exactly corresponds to the position of the basin of the Calycadnus. Claudiopolis may therefore be represented by
Mut, which is higher up the valley than Seleucia and near the junction of the northern and western branches of the Calycadnus. It is also the place to which the pass over the northern Taurus leads from
Laranda.
Pliny mentions a
Claudiopolis of
Cappadocia, and
Ptolemy has a
Claudiopolis in
Cataonia. Both these passages and those of Ammianus and Theophanes are cited to prove that there is a Claudiopolis in Cataonia, but it is manifest that the passage in Ammianus at least can apply only to a town in the valley of the Calycadnus in
Cilicia Trachea. The two Tauri of Theophanes might mean the Taurus and
Antitaurus, but
Hierocles places Claudiopolis in
Isauria, a description that cannot apply to the places so named of Pliny and Ptolemy. The city apparently received the Roman
colony name
Colonia Iulia Felix Augusta Ninica and minted coins in antiquity. Later assigned to the province of
Isauria, the town became a bishopric. It is no longer the seat of a residential bishop but remains a
titular see of the
Roman Catholic Church under the name of Claudiopolis in Isauria. == Location ==