A titular see in Crete, suffragan of Gortyna, was probably a
colony of Tarrha. It was taken by storm and almost entirely
destroyed by the Romans. Augustus restored it and in
consideration of the aid rendered him in his struggle with M.
Antonius, he bestowed on the citizens their freedom, and with it
the right of coinage. It has been identified with the modern
small village of Polis. The episcopal see is mentioned in the
"Notitiae episcopatuum" as late as the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries. It was re-established by the Greeks about the end of
the nineteenth century; the bishop resides in the monastery of
Preveli. Lequien (Oriens Christianus, II, 268) mentions Petrus,
who attended the Council of Ephesus, 431; Deneltius, at
Chalcedon, 451; Prosdocius, in 458; John, who appealed to Rome
against his metropolitan Paul, and attended the Council of
Constantinople, 667; Epiphanius at Nicaea, 786. More Catholic
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