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Comana Pontica (Ancient Greek: Κόμανα Ποντική, romanized: Komana Pontika), was an ancient city located in ancient Pontus, on the river Iris, at modern Gümenek [tr] near Tokat in Turkey.
COMANA PONTICA Pontus, Turkey. Site of the temple of Ma, in the valley of the Yeşil Irmak (Iris fl.), 11 km upstream from Tokat on the road to Niksar (Neocaesarea). The cult of Ma, identified with the Roman Bellona, was derived from Comana in Cappadocia, an old Hittite sanctuary.
The Diocese of Pontus (Latin: Dioecesis Pontica, Greek: Διοίκησις Πόντου/Ποντικῆς) was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, incorporating the provinces of northern and northeastern Asia Minor up to the border with the Sassanid Empire in Armenia. [1]
Nov 5, 2023 · The ancient city called Comana Pontica (Greek: Κόμανα Ποντική) belonged to the kingdom of Pontus. Located on the Iris River (now Yeşilırmak), it was therefore of strategic commercial importance.
Principal standing monuments are the Ala Kapi, a tetrastyle prostyle temple of the 2d c. A.D., the Kirik Kilise, 4th c. A.D. heroon of the senator Aurelius Claudius Hermodorus, a theater, and a number of churches and chapels. Outside the town are hundreds of tumulus graves.
The ruins of Comana are visible ten miles north-west of Guksun (Cocussus), in the vilayet of Adana (Lequien, I, 447; Ramsay, Hist. Geogr. of Asia Minor, passim). Another Comana, suffragan of Neocaesarea, was situated in Pontus Polemiacus; it had also a temple of Ma and was surnamed Hierocaesarea.
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The examples of the Roman imperial period indicate that Pontiei between the first and third centuries ce came from a variety of provinces, from Pliny’s Pontus et Bithynia as well as from Gregory’s Pontus Polemonianus.
