Conium, also called Conni, Conna, Konna, Kone, Cone, Demetrioupolis and Demetriopolis,
[ was a town of ancient ]Phrygia Magna
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. According to the ''Peutinger Table
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'', where the town name appears as Conni, it was located between Eucarpia
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and Nacolea
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, 32 Roman Miles
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from Eucarpia and 40 from Nacolea. Pliny the Elder
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calls the town Conium; Ptolemy calls it Conna or Konna. Under the Byzantine empire the town was called Cone or Kone ( grc, Κόνη), and was a bishopric of Phrygia Salutaris
In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; grc, Φρυγία, ''Phrygía'' ) was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. After its conquest, it became a region of the great emp ...
, of which Synnada
Synnada ( gr, τὰ Σύνναδα) was an ancient town of Phrygia Salutaris in Asia Minor. Its site is now occupied by the modern Turkish town of Şuhut, in Afyonkarahisar Province.
Situation
Synnada was situated in the south-eastern part of e ...
was the metropolis. No longer the seat of a residential bishopric, it remains, under the name Cone, a titular see
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of the Roman Catholic Church
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.
Its site is located near Zafertepeçalköy in Asiatic Turkey.
References
Populated places in Phrygia
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Former populated places in Turkey
Roman towns and cities in Turkey
Populated places of the Byzantine Empire
History of Kütahya Province
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