Mostene

Asia minor 400AD

Mostene (Μοστήνη) is a Roman and Byzantine era city in ancient Lydia,[1] located today at Kepecik in modern Turkey.

The town minted its own coin of which many examples exist today.[2] In 17AD the city was hit by a earthquake[3] and was assisted withrelefi from Tiberius.

There is debate, based on a line in Tacitus,[4] over whether Mostene was a Macedonian Colony. Cranmer[5] argues for the Macedonian ethnos while Getzel M. Cohen[6] argues for a native Lydian population.

Mostene was also the site of a Bishopric. The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Sardis and remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church to this day .[7] The diocese was suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Sardis under Patriarchate of Constantinople.


References

  1. Ptol. 5.2.16.
  2. Ancient Coinage of Lydia, Mostene.
  3. Tacitus. Annals. 2,47,3
  4. Tacitus, Annals II.47
  5. John Anthony Cramer, A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, Volume 1 (The University Press, 1832).p428
  6. Getzel M. Cohen, p219.
  7. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3m58.html


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