Nakoleia

Nakoleia (Greek: Νακώλεια[1] and Νακόλεια[2]) also known as Nakolaion (Νακώλαιον),[1] Latinized as Nacolia or Nacolea, was an ancient and medieval city in Phrygia.

It was a town of Phrygia Salutaris, taking its name in legend from the nymph Nacole (Νακώλη[1] and Νακόλη[2]), and had no history in antiquity.

[3][4] Pantoleon the Deacon relates a story in the Miracula S. Michaelis in which attacking Arabs are forced to abandon their siege of the town by the intervention of the archangel after offending him by shooting with a catapult at his church.

[7] The town was permanently conquered by the Seljuk Turks in the late 12th century who called it Kala'-i-Mashihya, the Christian Castle.

[8] At first a suffragan of Synnada, the see of Nakoleia became important in the early 8th century, when its bishop Constantine became one of the leading proponents of Byzantine Iconoclasm under Leo III the Isaurian (ruled 717–741) and was later condemned as an heresiarch at the Second Council of Nicaea (787).