Mostene
Mostene (Μοστήνη) is a Roman and Byzantine era city in ancient Lydia,[1] located today at Kepecik in modern Turkey.
The town minted its own coin of which many examples exist today.[2] In 17AD the city was hit by a earthquake[3] and was assisted withrelefi 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.
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 .[7] The diocese was suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Sardis under Patriarchate of Constantinople.