Mostene
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.
References
- Back to citation Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.2.16.
- Back to citation Ancient Coinage of Lydia, Mostene.
- Back to citation Tacitus. Annales. Vol. 2.47.3.
- Back to citation Tacitus, Annals II.47
- Back to citation John Anthony Cramer, A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, Volume 1 (The University Press, 1832).p428
- Back to citation Getzel M. Cohen, p219.
- Back to citation 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.
- Back to citation Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- Back to citation "Mostene (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".