Mostene

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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 earthquake [3] and was assisted with relief 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.

Its site is tentatively located near Sancaklıbozköy in Asiatic Turkey. [7] [8]

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.

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References

  1. Ptolemy. The Geography . Vol. 5.2.16.
  2. Ancient Coinage of Lydia, Mostene.
  3. Tacitus. Annales . Vol. 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. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World . Princeton University Press. p. 56, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN   978-0-691-03169-9.
  8. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  9. "Mostene (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".

PD-icon.svg 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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