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

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

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.