Editing Knidos (section)

===Byzantine era===
During the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] period there must still have been a considerable population: for the ruins contain a large number of buildings belonging to the Byzantine style, and Christian sepulchres are common in the neighbourhood.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Bishop Ioannes of Cnidus took part in the [[Council of Chalcedon]] in 451 CE and was one of the signatories of the letter that in 458 the bishops of the [[Roman province]] of [[Caria]], to which Cnidus belonged, wrote to [[Byzantine Emperor]] [[Leo I the Thracian]] after the murder of [[Proterius of Alexandria]]. Bishop Evander was at the [[Second Council of Constantinople]] in 553 and Bishop Stauratius at the [[Second Council of Nicaea]] in 787.<ref>Michel Lequien, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0agp0mJFG_sC ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus''], Paris 1740, Volume I, coll. 917-918</ref><ref>Raymond Janin, v. ''Cnide'', in [http://booksnow.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca2/4/dictionnairedhis13bauduoft/dictionnairedhis13bauduoft.pdf ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques''], volume XIII, Paris 1956, col. 179</ref> No longer a residential bishopric, Cnidus is today listed by the [[Catholic Church]] as a [[titular see]].<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 872</ref>

[[File:Knidos 05831-05844.jpg|center|thumb|700px|Knidos panorama]]