Perperene

Perperene^{[pronunciation?]} (Ancient Greek: Περπερηνή Perperini) or Perperena (Περπερήνα Perperina) was a city of ancient Mysia on the south-east of Adramyttium, in the neighbourhood of which there were copper mines and good vineyards. It was said by some to be the place in which Thucydides had died.^[1][2] Stephanus of Byzantium calls the town Parparum or Parparon (Παρπάρων), but he writes that some called the place Perine.^[3] Ptolemy calls it Perpere or Permere.^[4] According to the Suda, Hellanicus of Lesbos, a 5th-century BC Greek logographer, died at Perperene at age 85. At a later date it was given the name Theodosiopolis or Theodosioupolis (Θεοδοσιούπολις).^[5][6]

Environment of Perperene occupied by pinus pinea.

It is located near Aşagı Beyköy, on the Kozak plateau near Bergama in the İzmir Province of Turkey in western Anatolia.^[6][7]

Ecclesiastical history

Perperene was the seat of a bishop; no longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.^[8]