Paltus
Paltus or Paltos is a ruined city. It was also a bishopric, a suffragan of Seleucia Pieria in the Roman province of Syria Prima, that, no longer being a residential see, is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.
The ruins of Paltus may be seen at Belde at the south of Nahr al-Sin or Nahr al-Melek, the ancient Badan.
The town was founded by a colony from Arvad or Aradus. It is located in Syria by Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy ; Strabo places it near the river Badan. When the province of Theodorias was established by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, Paltus became a part of it.
From the sixth century according to the Notitia episcopatuum of Anastasius it was an autocephalous archdiocese and depended on the patriarch of Antioch. In the tenth century it still existed and its precise limits are known .
Le Quien mentions five of its bishops:
