Agios Theologos

English

Map of ancient Ephesus and medieval Agios Theologos

Alternative forms

  • Hagios Theologos

Etymology

From the modern Greek transcription of Byzantine Greek Ἅγιος Θεολόγος (Hágios Theológos, the Holy Theologian), from its 6th-century basilica dedicated to St John the Theologian, supposed author of the Book of Revelation. Doublet of Ayasoluk.

Proper noun

Agios Theologos

  1. (historical) Former name of Selcuk, a town in Turkey near the ruins of ancient Ephesus.

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