ORCISTUS a town in the north-east of Phrygia, near the borders of Galatia. It was, the see of a bishop ( Geogr. Sacr. p. 256; Concil. Chalced.; Tab. Peuting). It is placed by Col. Leake (Asia Minor, p. 71), on the authority of an inscription found there by Pococke, at Alekiam, and, perhaps more correctly, by Hamilton ( Researches, 1. p. 446) about 3 or 4 miles to the south-east of the village of Alekiam, where considerable remains of antiquity are found.
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