Mostene (Μοστήνη), also called Mosteni or Mostenoi (Μοστηνοί), or Mostina (Μόστινα), or Mustene or Moustene (Μουστήνη), is a Roman and Byzantine era city in the Hyrcanian plain of ancient Lydia.1 The town minted its own coin of which many examples exist today.2 In 17 CE the city was hit by an earthquake3 and was assisted with relief from Tiberius.
There is debate, based on a line in Tacitus,4 over whether Mostene was a Macedonian Colony. Cranmer5 argues for the Macedonian ethnos while Getzel M. Cohen6 argues for a native Lydian population.
Its site is tentatively located near Sancaklıbozköy in Asiatic Turkey.78
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 .9 The diocese was suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Sardis under Patriarchate of Constantinople.
References
References
- Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.2.16.
- Ancient Coinage of Lydia, Mostene.
- Tacitus. Annales. Vol. 2.47.3.
- Tacitus, Annals II.47
- John Anthony Cramer, A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, Volume 1 (The University Press, 1832).p428
- Getzel M. Cohen, p219.
- Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
- Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- "Mostene (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Mosteni". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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