[1] Siméon Vailhé, writing at the beginning of the 20th century, says that the native name of the city is not known, and that it owes its Greek name to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180).
[1] Writing almost a century later, Maurice Sartre says that "Batnai of Anthemousia" (in Latinized form, Batnae of Anthemusia) was called Marcopolis in honour of the emperor Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Augustus (225–244).
[2] However, Steven K. Ross points out that Marcopolis and Barnae are listed as distinct episcopal sees in the Notitia Antiochena, showing that they are not the same place, though they may have been close to each other.
[5] Marcopolis was a Christian Bishopric during the Byzantine empire[6][7] [8] The bishopric of Marcopolis is alluded to in the 6th-century Notitiæ episcopatuum of Antioch as a see of Osrhoene and thus as a suffragan of Edessa, the metropolitan see of that province.
(1830–1899), a French missionary in British Columbia, Canada, held this title while coadjutor for the apostolic vicariate of New Westminster.