Cotenna or Kotenna ( grc, Κότεννα) was a city in the

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of Pamphylia I in Asia Minor. It corresponds to modern Gödene, near

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Name

Strabo (Geography, 12.7.1) mentions the Katenneis ( el, Κατεννεῖς) in

Pisidia Pisidia (; grc-gre, Πισιδία, ; tr, Pisidya) was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Pamphylia, northeast of Lycia, west of Isauria and Cilicia, and south of Phrygia, corresponding roughly to the modern-day province of Ant ...

adjoining

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and the tribe of Homonades ( grc, Ὁμοναδεῖς) east and north of Trogitis ( Lake Suğla). An inscription has been found showing that the people called themselves Kotenneis, so that the true name of the town was Kotenna/Cotenna. Hierocles mentions it instead as Kotana in Pamphylia. It appears as Kotaina in some ''

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''. It has been said that the Kotenneis are the same as the Etenneis ( el, Ετεννεῖς), mentioned by Polybius (V, 73) as living in Pisidia above Side, and who struck coins in the

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times. The native name may have been Hetenneis, and the tribe afterwards divided into at least two districts, the northern taking the name Etenneis, while the southern preferred Kotenneis.Sophrone Pétridès, "Cotenna"
in ''

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Bishopric

The

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of Cotenna was a suffragan of

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, the capital and

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of Pamphylia Prima. Of its bishops, Hesychius took part in the

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in 381, Acacius in the Council of Ephesus in 431, Eugenius in the

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in 451. Maurianus was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of the province of Pamphylia sent in 458 to

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concerning the murder of

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. Flavianus was at the synod called by

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in 536. Macarius attended the Photian

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. No longer a residential bishopric, Cotenna is today listed by the

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as a

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.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 875 Since the

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no new appointments of

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s have been made to such Eastern sees, leaving this titular see vacant since the death of the last incumbent in 1986. There was another see called

Etenna Etenna ( grc, Ἔτεννα) was a city in the late Roman province of Pamphylia Prima. Centuries earlier, it was reckoned as belonging to Pisidia, as by Polybius, who wrote that in 218 BC the people of Etenna "who live in the highlands of Pisidi ...

. A third district was perhaps also called Banaba or Manaua; for in 680 Cosmas appears as Bishop of "Kotenna and Manaua".

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William Mitchell Ramsay Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, FBA (15 March 185120 April 1939) was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar. By his death in 1939 he had become the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor and a leading scholar in th ...

, ''Historical Geography of Asia Minor'' (London, 1890), 418; {{Ancient settlements in Turkey, state=collapsed Catholic titular sees in Asia Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey Populated places in ancient Pamphylia Roman towns and cities in Turkey History of Konya Province Populated places of the Byzantine Empire Former populated places in Turkey