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.

Asia minor 400AD

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.