Historical place profile
Ephesus / Arsinoeia
Ephesus was a major city of Roman Asia, an apostolic mission centre and the location of the ecumenical council of 431. Urban, cultic, commercial and ecclesiastical histories overlap without being identical.
Historical layers
- Ionian and Hellenistic city
- Roman provincial metropolis and Artemision
- Pauline mission and early Christian community
- Council of Ephesus in 431
- Late-antique and Byzantine settlement shift
Church-history significance
Acts 18–20, the Pauline tradition, Revelation and patristic evidence document a major Christian centre. The council of 431 belongs to the city’s later episcopal and imperial setting.
Primary and geographic sources
- Pleiades place 599612
- Acts 18–20; Ephesians; Revelation 2:1–7
- Acts of the Council of Ephesus (431)
Map semantics
The coordinate at 37.940164272, 27.341 is a representative_point_not_boundary. It anchors the place for research and does not assert one unchanging urban, political or ecclesiastical boundary across all periods.
Catalogue record
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:599612
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:599612
- Place type
- urban area, port, settlement
- Precision
- precise
- Provenance
- Pleiades 599612; Barrington Atlas 61 E2 Ephesus