Conium, also called Conni, Conna, Konna, Kone, Cone, Demetrioupolis and Demetriopolis, was a town of ancient

Phrygia Magna In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , ''Phrygía'') was a kingdom in the west-central part of Ancient regions of Anatolia#Classical Age regions (circa 200 BC), Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. Stories of ...

. According to the ''

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'', where the town name appears as Conni, it was located between

Eucarpia Eucarpia or Eukarpia () was a city in Phrygia and a bishopric in the late Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris, in Asia Minor. Location Eukarpia, mentioned by Strabo (XII, 576) and several other geographers, was situated not far from the sources ...

and Nacolea, 32

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from Eucarpia and 40 from Nacolea.

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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 (), and was a bishopric of

Phrygia Salutaris In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , ''Phrygía'') was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. Stories of the heroic age of Greek mythology tell of several legendary Ph ...

, of which Synnada was the metropolis. No longer the seat of a residential bishopric, it remains, under the name Cone, a

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of the

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. Its site is located near Zafertepeçalköy in Asiatic Turkey.

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