[2]: 196 The Annuario Pontificio associates it with a modern Surmene, not the Sürmene on a part of the Black Sea coast, which belonged to the late Roman province of Pontus.
[3] The Phrygian town of Anabura is mentioned by Livy as lying on the route of the consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso from Synnada to the sources of the Alander.
The 6th-century patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople was born at the nearby village of Theiou kome and received his education at Augustopolis.
She wrote that the crusader army defeated Turkish forces under Danishmend, Qilij Arslan I, and Hasan of Cappadocia here and at Hebraike.
Then in 1116, the Anatolian Seljuk sultan Malik Shah led an unsuccessful attack on a Byzantine army under Alexios I Komnenos before ultimately negotiating peace on the plain between Augustopolis and Akroinos.