[21][22], The municipality Chalcis was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of Chalcis city itself with four former municipalities, which also became municipal units :[23], The municipality has an area of 424.766 km2, the municipal unit 30.804 km2.[24]. He was also known as Costobar. The earliest recorded mention of Chalcis is in the Iliad,[5] where it is mentioned in the same line as its rival Eretria. Most of those tetrarchies, including Judea proper, were incorporated into Judaea Province from 6 CE, though limited Herodian de facto kingship continued until Agrippa I's death in 44 CE and nominal title of kingship continued until 92 CE, when the last Herodian monarch, Agrippa II, died and Rome assumed full power over his de jure domain. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός", "Cardinale Morosini et Paul Paléologue Tagaris, patriarches, et Antoine Ballester, vicaire du Papae, dans le patriarcat de Constantinople (1332-34 et 1380-87)", "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. In AD 41, at Agrippa's request, his brother Herod was given Chalcis and allowed the title of basileus by Claudius. Iturean kingdom situated in the Beqaa Valley (c.80 BCE-92 CE), incorporates text from a publication now in the, Rajak (1996), Iulius Agrippa (2) II, Marcus, Zenodorus, 36–23 BCE (initially under Cleopatra). For Westerners, its common name was Negropont or Negroponte. Lysanias (Abilene), time of John the Baptist? For the ancient city in Acarnania, see. [9] [10] [11] In 55, the Emperor Nero added to his realm the cities of Tiberias and Taricheae in Galilee, and Livias (Iulias), with fourteen villages near it, in Perea. Herod Agrippa I (Batanaea, Abilene and other areas), AD 37–44, Herod Agrippa II (Chalcis), AD 48–53; (Batanaea, Abilene and other areas), AD 53–93/94, Aristobulus of Chalcis (Chalcis), AD 57–92. The Byzantine diocese of Chalkis was initially a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Corinth, but in the 9th century was transferred to the Metropolitan of Athens, remaining in the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The grandson of Herod the Great and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice, he is the king named Herod in the Acts of the Apostles 12:1: "Herod (Agrippa)". 40.11.) [8] In Byzantine times, Chalcis was usually called Euripos, a name also applied to the entire island of Euboea, although the ancient name survived in administrative and ecclesiastical usage until the 9th century; alternatively, it is possible that the name was given anew to a settlement that was founded in the 9th century in the location of the ancient city, after the latter had been abandoned in the early Middle Ages. [19] Images of the Dominican saints, Dominic and Peter Martyr, stand at the base of the central arch. They made Chalcis the capital of their realm, Baalbek was the center of worship. On 8 February 1314, the Latin see was united in commendam (as an 'additional benefice') with the Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople, so that the exiled Patriarch, excluded from Constantinople itself since the Byzantine reconquest of the city, could have actual jurisdiction on Greek soil and exercise a direct role as head of the Latin clergy in what remained of Latin Greece.[16]. The modern town received an impetus in its export trade from the establishment of railway connection with Athens and its port Piraeus in 1904. Herod I, also known as Herod the Great, was a Roman client king of Judea, referred to as the Herodian kingdom. Chalcis (the chief town of the island of Euboea in modern Greece) Chalcis (an ancient town in Aeolis, in modern Turkey) Chalcis (an ancient town in Aetolia, in modern Greece) Chalcis (an ancient town in Elis, in modern Greece) Chalcis (an ancient town in Epirus, in modern Greece) Chalcis (an ancient town in modern northern Syria) Declension Chalcis (/ ˈ k æ l s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek & Katharevousa: Χαλκίς, Chalkís) or Chalkida (Modern Greek: Χαλκίδα, romanized: Halkídha, ) is the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, situated on the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point. Despite his successes, including singlehandedly forging a new aristocracy from practically nothing, he has still garnered criticism from various historians. Es geht zurück auf einen untergegangenen Bischofssitz in der antiken Stadt Chalkis, die in der römischen Provinz Syria bzw.