Temenothyra (Ancient Greek: Τημενοθύρα), or Temenothyrae or Temenothyrai (Ancient Greek: Τημενοθύραι or Τημένου θύραι, romanized: Temenou Thyrae, Temenouthyrai), was a town of ancient Lydia,[1] or of Phrygia,[2] inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.[3] It became a bishopric; no longer the seat of a residential bishop, under the name Temenothyrae it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[4]
Its site is located near Uşak in Asiatic Turkey.[3][5]
References
- 1.Pausanias (1918). "35.7". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
- 2.Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 668.
- 3.[3.2]Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
- 4.Catholic Hierarchy
- 5.Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.