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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 158 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIS (anc. Sision or Siskia, later Flaviopolis or Flavias)  , the See also:chief See also:town of the Khozan sanjak of the See also:Adana vilayet of See also:Asiatic See also:Turkey, situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the Kirkgen Su, a tributary of the Jihun (Pyramus) and at the See also:south end of a See also:group of passes leading from the See also:Anti-See also:Taurus valleys to the Cilician See also:plain and Adana . It was besieged by the See also:Arabs in 704 but relieved by the Byzantines . The See also:Caliph, Motawakkil took it and refortified it; but it soon returned to See also:Byzantine hands . It was rebuilt in 1186 by See also:Leo II., See also:king of Lesser See also:Armenia, who made it his See also:capital . In 1394 it was taken and demolished by the See also:sultan of See also:Egypt, and it has never recovered its prosperity . It is now only a big See also:village of some 3000 inhabitants . It has had, however, a See also:great See also:place in Armenian ecclesiastical See also:history from the times of St See also:Gregory the Illuminator to our own . Gregory himself was there consecrated the first Catholicus in A.D . 267, but transferred his see to Vagarshabad (See also:Echmiadzin, Etchmiadzin), whence, after the fall of the Arsacids, it passed to Tovin . After the constitution of the See also:kingdom of Lesser Armenia, the catholicate returned to See also:Sis (1294), the capital, and remained there 150 years . In 1441, Sis having fallen from its high See also:estate, the Armenian See also:clergy proposed to remove the see, and on the refusal of the actual Catholicus, Gregory IX., installed a See also:rival at Echmiadzin, who, as soon as See also:Selim I. had conquered Greater Armenia, became the more widely accepted of the two by the Armenian See also:church in the See also:Ottoman See also:empire . The Catholicus of Sis maintained himself nevertheless, and was supported in his pretensions by the See also:Porte up to the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century, when the See also:patriarch Nerses, declaring finally for Echmiadzin, carried the See also:government with him .

In 1885 Sis tried to declare Echmiadzin schismatic, and in 1895 its clergy took it on themselves to elect a Catholicus without reference to the patriarch; but the Porte annulled the See also:

election, and only allowed it six years later on Sis renouncing its pretensions to See also:independence . The See also:present Catholicus has the right to prepare the sacred See also:myron (oil) and to preside over a See also:synod, but is in fact not more than a See also:metropolitan, and regarded by many Armenians as schismatic . The lofty See also:castle and the monastery and church built by Leo II., and containing the See also:coronation See also:chair of the See also:kings of Lesser Armenia, are interesting . (D . G .

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