The Pilgrim of Bordeaux
An itinerary from Bordeaux to Jerusalem and back
Section 2: From Constantinople to Jerusalem.
We also travelled in the consulate of Dalmatius and Zenophilus leaving Chalcedonia on the 30th of May, and returned to Constantinople on the 25th of December in the same consulate. From Constantinople you cross the strait, come to Chalcedonia, and travel through the province of Bithynia.
- Change at Narses - miles VII
- Halt at Pandicia - miles VII
- Change at Pontamus - miles XIII
- Halt at Libyssa - miles IX (Here lies King Annibalianus who was once King of the Africans)
- Change at Brunga - miles XII
- City of Nicomedia - miles XIII
- Total from Constantinople to Nicomedia 50 miles, 7 changes, 3 halts
- Change at Egribolum - miles X
- Halt at Libum - miles XI
- Change at Liada - miles XII
- City of Nicia - miles IX
- Change at Schine - miles VIII
- Halt at Midus - miles VII
- Change at Chogea - miles VI
- Change at Thatesus - miles X
- Change at Tutadus - miles IX
- Change at Protoniaca - miles XI
- Change at Artemis - miles XII
- Halt at Dable - miles VI
- Halt at Cerate - miles VI (Frontier of Bithynia and Galatia)
- Change at the frontier - miles X
- Halt at Dadartanum - miles VI
- Change at Trans Montem - miles VI
- Change at Milia - miles XI
- City of Juliopolis - miles VIII
- Change at the river Hycron - miles XIII
- Halt at Agannia - miles XI
- Change at Petrobroge - miles VI
- Halt at Mnizos - miles X
- Change at Prasmon - miles XII
- Halt at Malogardis - miles IX
- Change at Lake Cenaxis - miles XIII
- City of Anchira - miles XIII
- Total from Nicomedia to Ancyra in Galatia 258 miles, 16 changes, 112 halts.
- Change at Delemna - miles X
- Halt at Curveunta - miles XI
- Change at Rosolodiacum - miles XII
- Change at Aliassus - miles XIII
- City of Aspona - miles XVIII
- Change at Galea - miles XIII
- Change at Andrapa - miles IX (Frontier of Galatia and Cappadocia)
- Halt at Parnassus - miles XIII
- Halt at Iogola - miles XVI
- Halt at Nitalis - miles XVIII
- Change at Argustana - miles XIII
- City of Colonia - miles XVI
- Change at Momoasson - miles XII
- Halt at Anathiango - miles XII
- Change at Chusa - miles XII
- Halt at Sasima - miles XII
- Halt at Andavilis - miles XVI (Here is the villa of Pampatus, from which come the curule horses)
- City of Thyana - miles XVIII (Here was born Appollonius the magician)
- City of Faustinopolis - miles XII
- Change at Caena - miles XIII
- Halt at Opodandum - miles XII
- Change at Pylae - miles XIV (Frontier of Cappadocia and Cilicia)
- Halt at Mansucrine - miles XII
- City of Tarsus in Cilicia - miles XII (Here was born the Apostle Paul)
- Total from Ancyra in Galatia to Tarsus 343 miles, 25 changes, 18 halts.
- Change at Pargais - miles XIII
- City of Adana - miles XIV
- City of Mansista - miles XVIII
- Change at Tardequeia - miles XV
- Halt at Catavolum - miles XVI
- Halt at Baie - miles XVII
- Halt at Alexandria Scabiosa - miles XVI
- Change at Pictanus - miles IX (Frontier of Cilicia and Syria)
- Halt at Pagrius - miles VIII
- City of Antiochia - miles XVI
- Total from Tarsus in Cilicia to Antioch 141 miles, 10 changes, 7 halts.
- To the palace of Daphne - miles V
- Change at Hysdata - miles XI
- Halt at Platanus - miles VIII
- Change at Bacchaiae - miles VIII
- Halt at Catelae - miles XVI
- City of Ladica - miles XVI
- City of Gabala - miles XIV
- City oí Balaneas - miles XIII (Frontier of Coele Syria and Phoenicia)
- Change at Maraccae - miles X
- Halt at Antaradus - miles XVI (Here is a city in the sea, two miles from the shore)
- Change at Spiclis - miles XII
- Change at Basiliscum - miles XII
- Halt at Arcae - miles VIII
- Change at Bruttus - miles IV
- City of Tripolis - miles XII
- Change at Triclis - miles XII
- Change at Bruttus alius - miles XII
- Change at Alcobilis - miles XII
- City of Berytus - miles XII
- Change at Heldua - miles XII
- Change at Porphyrion - miles VIII
- City of Sidon - miles VIII
- Thence to Sarepta - miles IX (Here Helias went up to the widow and begged food for himself)
- Change at the Ninth - miles IV
- City of Tyre - miles XII
- Total from Antioch to Tyre 174 miles, 20 changes, 11 halts.
- Change at Alexandroschene - miles XII
- Change at Ecdeppa - miles XII
- City of Ptolemais - miles IX
- Change at Calamon - miles XII
- Halt at Sycaminos - miles III (Here is the Mount Carmel where Helias offered sacrifice)
- Change at Certa - miles VIII (Frontier of Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine)
- City of Caesarea Palaestina that is, Judaea - miles VIII (Here is the bath of Cornelius the centurion who gave many alms. At the third milestone thence is the mountain Syna, where there is a fountain, in which, if a woman bathes, she becomes pregnant)
- Total from Tyre to Caesarea Palaestina 73 miles, 2 changes, 3 halts.
- City of Maximianopolis - miles XVIII
- City of Stradela - miles X (Here reigned King Achab and here Helias prophesied. Here is the field in which David slew Goliath)
- City of Scythopolis - miles XII
- Aser where was the house of Job - miles VI
- City of Neapolis - miles XV (Here is the Mount Gerizim. Here the Samaritans say that Abraham offered sacrifice and one reaches the top of the mountain by steps, three hundred in number. Beyond this, at the foot of the mountain itself, is a place called Sichem. Here is a tomb in which Joseph is laid, in the village which Jacob his father gave to him. Thence Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, was carried off by the children of the Amorites. A mile thence is a place named Sichar, from which the woman of Samaria came down to the same place in which Jacob dug the well, to draw water from it, and our Lord Jesus Christ talked with her; in which place are plane-trees, which Jacob planted, and a baptistry which is supplied with water from the well.
Twenty-eight miles thence on the left hand, as one goes towards Jerusalem, is a village named Bethar. A mile thence is the place where Jacob slept when he was journeying into Mesopotamia and here is the almond tree; here Jacob saw the vision and the angel wrestled with him. Here was King Jeroboam when the prophet was sent to him, that he should turn himself to the Most High God; and the prophet was ordered not to eat bread with the false prophet whom the king had with him, and because he was beguiled by the false prophet and ate bread with him, as he was returning a lion fell upon the prophet on the way and slew him.) - Thence to Jerusalem - miles XII
- Total from Caesarea Palaestina to Jerusalem 116 miles, 4 changes, 4 halts.
- Grand total from Constantinople to Jerusalem 1,159 miles, 69 changes, 58 halts.
