Mostene (Μοστήνη), also called MosteniorMostenoi (Μοστηνοί), or Mostina (Μόστινα), or MusteneorMoustene (Μουστήνη), is a Roman and Byzantine era city in the Hyrcanian plainofancient 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 SancaklıbozköyinAsiatic Turkey.[7][8]
Mostene was also the site of a Bishopric. The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical provinceofSardis 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.
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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