MAXIMIANO´POLIS
MAXIMIANO´POLIS (
Μαξιμιανόπολις), the classical appellation of the Scriptural Hadadrimmon (
Zechariah, 12.11) in the plain of Megiddo, 17 M. P. from Caesareia (of Palestine), and 10 M. P. from Jezreel, according to the Jerusalem Itinerary; consistently with which notice St. Jerome writes:--“Adadremmom, pro quo LXX. transtulerunt
Ποῶνος, urbs est juxta Jesraelem, quae hoc olim vocabulo nuncupata est, et hodie vocatur Maximianopolis in Campo Mageddon” (
Comm. in Zachar. l.c.); and again,--“diximus Jesraelem, quae nunc juxta Maximianopolin est” (
in Hos. 1).
It is placed in the civil and ecclesiastical division of Palaestina Secunda, and its bishop assisted at the Council of Nicaea. (Reland,
Palaestina, pp. 891, 892.)
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