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Tralles was a town of the Hellenic, Roman and Byzantine empires. Tralles was sacked by the Ottoman Turks in 1284, but remains today a titular See of the Roman Catholic Church. A new Turkish city, Aydin, was built in its place.
Bishops
An early bishop Polybius (fl. ca. 105) is attested by a letter from Saint Ignatius of Antioch to the church at Tralles. Ignatius wrote an epistle to the church here, and Anthemius of Tralles, the architect of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, was born in Tralles. The city was officially Christianized, along with the rest of Caria, early after the conversion of Constantine, at which time the see was confirmed. Among the recorded bishops are:
The Catholic Church includes this bishopric in its list of titular sees as Tralles in Asia, distinguishing it from the see of Tralles in Lydia. It has appointed no new titular bishop to these Eastern sees since the Second Vatican Council.