↑ “Aphrodisias”. [[<strong class="error">Lỗi biểu thức: Dư toán tử <</strong>]] UK Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Truy cập ngày 20 tháng 1 năm 2016.
↑ For Greeks, "Leleges" denoted an ancient pre-Greek people.
↑ See Suda Online s.v. Ninoe, (accessed 25-12-2006); the elite of Aphrodisias linked their founding to the Assyrian ruler called in Greek Ninus, the eponymous founder also of Nineveh.
↑ Siméon Vailhé, "Stauropolis" The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912 full text, citing Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte... Texte der Notitiæ episcopatuum, 534. The name Tauropolis, said to have been borne by the town prior to that of Stauropolis, is an error of several scholars, e.g. Revue des études grecques 19:228-30; the error 'Tauropolis' derives from inscription IAph 42: see discussion by Roueché at ALA VI.48
