Sapareva Banya

Sapareva Banya is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, part of Kyustendil Province. As Ancient Germania in Dacia, a former bishopric, it is a Latin Catholic titular see. It is located at the north foot of the Rila mountain 15 km east of Dupnitsa. The town is thought for its hot mineral and clear mountain water, as well as the geyser inside the town centre that sprang forth in 1957 The former Roman town of Germania in Dacia or Germane once stood on the place of cutting-edge Sapareva Banya and inside the third century changed into an essential metropolis in Dacia province.

This, or probably Germen, turned into the birthplace of the superb Byzantine popular Belisarius and become cited within the 6th century as. In an eleventh-century charter of Byzantine Emperor Basil Porphyrogenitus the Young, it become indexed as Germaneia. Germania in Dacia turned into vital sufficient inside the past due Roman province of Dacia Mediterranea to grow to be a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sardica within the provincial capital now Sofia, inside the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, but the see faded because of the Huns. No historical resident Bishop of Germania is recorded.