Cadi or Kadoi ( grc, Κάδοι) was a city of ancient Mysia according to

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephan of Byzantium ( la, Stephanus Byzantinus; grc-gre, Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD), was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethni ...

, or of Phrygia Epictetius according to

Strabo Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-sighted that he could see ...

. It was inhabited during

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, Roman, and Byzantine times. The coins of Cadi bear the ethnic name Καδοηνων; and the river Hermus is represented on them. Cadi may be the place which

Propertius Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC. Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of ''Elegies'' ('). He was a friend of the poets Gallus a ...

calls "Mygdonii Cadi." It was afterwards an episcopal see, in ecclesiastic province of

Phrygia Pacatiana 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 empires ...

. No longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. Its site is located near Gediz, Kütahya in Asiatic Turkey.

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Populated places in Phrygia Populated places in ancient Mysia Former populated places in Turkey Roman towns and cities in Turkey Populated places of the Byzantine Empire History of Kütahya Province Catholic titular sees in Asia Gediz District {{Kütahya-geo-stub