 The historian Elisabeth Zachariadou suggested that the seat of the metropolitan was moved at the time to Egridir, but this can not be verified.The see was definitely revived in the 17th century, as the patriarchal "berat" of 1625 once again refers to the city as the seat of a residential metropolitan.Iconium remained the seat of the metropolis until the 19th century, when it moved to Niğde, where the Greek Orthodox element was stronger.