Faustinopolis

Faustinopolis was an ancient city in Asia Minor, Cappadocia landscape in today's Başmakçi district Ulukışla the Turkish province of Nigde. It lay at the foot of the Taurus Mountains on the road from Tyana to the Cilician Gate.

The city fell to a village called Halala. To town with the rank of a Roman Colonia it was raised under Marcus Aurelius, whose wife Faustina had died there in the year 176. A temple dedicated to Faustina there was later rededicated to Elagabalus. In late antiquity Faustinopolis belonged to the province of Cappadocia Secunda. It was the seat of a bishop; to the diocese goes back the titular Faustinopolis the Roman Catholic Church.

From Tyana, today Kemerhisar, led an ancient road through the Cilician gates Faustinopolis. The localization of Faustinopolis succeeded with an inscription from the time of Gordian III. Among the ruins of the city is an acropolis.