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Avlonari (Greek: Αυλωνάρι) is a village and a community in the eastern part of the Aegean island of Euboea, Greece. It was the seat of the municipality of Avlon, Ancient Aulon, a former bishopric which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
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Map of Avlonari 340 09, Greece
In 2011 its population was 637 for the village and 1,354 for the community, which includes the villages Chania, Dafni, Elaia and Lofiskos. Avlonari is situated on a hillside, 13 km northeast of Aliveri, 15 km south of Kymi, Greece and 47 km east of Chalcis.
History
Aulon, the ancient name of the town, appears in the Notitiae Episcopatuum, commencing with that of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise (886-912), as a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Athens. No names of its first-millennium bishops are known. After what is termed the Fourth Crusade, Aulon became a diocese of the Latin Church.
During the Venetian rule of Euboea (15th century), twelve 50 m tall towers were built northeast and north of Avlonari to protect the village from raiders.
Titular see
No longer a residential bishopric, this Aulon is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular bishopric, being distinguished from an Adriatic diocese Aulon by using for the Euboean Aulon the Latin adjective Aulonensis, while the Latin adjective regarding the Aulon at modern Vlorë in Epirus (Albania) is Aulonitanus.
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Catholic titular bishopric.
It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank :