Mostene (Μοστήνη), also called Mosteni or Mostenoi (Μοστηνοί), or Mostina (Μόστινα), or Mustene or Moustene (Μουστήνη), is a

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and

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era city in the

Hyrcanian plain The Hyrcanian plain () was a plain near Sardis, the provincial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, Achaemenid Persian satrapy (province) of Lydia (satrapy), Lydia. Located in the Hermos valley, in what is present-day western Turkey, according to the a ...

ancient Lydia Lydia (; ) was an Iron Age kingdom situated in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital was Sardis. At some point before 800 BC, the Lyd ...

. The town minted its own coin of which many examples exist today. In 17 CE the city was hit by an

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and was assisted with relief from

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. There is debate, based on a line in

Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. Tacitus’ two major historical works, ''Annals'' ( ...

, over whether Mostene was a Macedonian Colony. Cranmer argues for the Macedonian ethnos while Getzel M. Cohen argues for a native Lydian population. Its site is tentatively located near Sancaklıbozköy in Asiatic Turkey. Mostene was also the site of a

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. The diocese belonged to the

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Sardis Sardis ( ) or Sardes ( ; Lydian language, Lydian: , romanized: ; ; ) was an ancient city best known as the capital of the Lydian Empire. After the fall of the Lydian Empire, it became the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, Persian Lydia (satrapy) ...

and remains a

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of the

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to this day . The

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was

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of the

of Sardis under

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