Miletopolis
Miletopolis (Ancient Greek: Μιλητόπολις) or Miletoupolis (Μιλητούπολις) was a town in the north of ancient Mysia, at the confluence of the rivers Macestus and Rhyndacus, and on the west of the lake which derives its name from the town.[1] It was a Milesian colony. Strabo mentions that a part of the inhabitants of the town were transferred to Gargara at some indeterminant time.[2]
It was Christianised at an early date and remains a bishopric of the Greek Orthodox Church[3] and a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[4] Between 1970 and 1975, Stylianos Harkianakis, who would later become Archbishop Stylianos of Australia held the title of Greek Orthodox Bishop of Miletopolis. Since 2011, the Greek Orthodox Bishop to hold the title of Miletopolis is Bishop Iakovos of Miletopolis who serves as an assistant bishop in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
Its site is located near Karacabey, Bursa Province, Turkey.[5][6]
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Cyzicus. Miletopolis was a town north of Mysia, at the confluence of the Macestus and the Rhyndacus, west of Lake Miletopolitis Limne. There seems to have been a tribe there, called MilatÊ, of which Miletopolis was the chief town and whose name was hellenized in order to suggest a colony from Miletus. Nothing is known of the history of Miletopolis except that its inhabitants served to colonize the city of Gargara. It has been identified with Bali-Kesser, Manias, Mikhalitch; but the first two identifications are certainly erroneous and the third doubtful. It was more probably located at Hammamli, in the vilayet of Brusa, where the remains of an ancient town can be seen. Miletopolis figures in the "NotitiÊ episcopatuum" among the suffragan sees of Cyzicus until the twelfth or thirteenth century; toward the end of the twelfth it was united with the See of Lopadium, as an archbishopric and later as metropolis. Le Quien (Oriens Christ., I, 779) gives the names of some twelve bishops of Miletopolis; the first is Philetus, a contemporary of St. Parthenius, Bishop of Lampsacus, born at Miletopolis, in the beginning of the fourth century.
HAMILTON, Researches, I, 81; II, 91; SMITH, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, s. v.; RAMSAY, Asia Minor, 159.
References
- Back to citation Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xii. p.575, xiv. p. 681. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition; Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v; Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 5.40 Book 5.32, 5.40.
- Back to citation Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xii. p.575, xiv. p. 681. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
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