- Stratonicea (Lydia)
Stratonicea – (Greek: Στρατoνικεια, or Στρατονίκεια) also
transliterated as Stratoniceia and Stratonikeia, earlier Indi, and later for a time Hadrianapolis – was an ancient city in the valley of theCaicus river, betweenGerme andAcrasus , inLydia ,Anatolia ; its site is currently near the village ofSiledik , in the district ofKırkağaç ,Manisa Province , in theAsia n part ofTurkey .The foundation of the city dates from the
Hellenistic period, probably on the site of an older settlement, "Indi". One source namesEumenes II as the founder, who named the city after his wife,Stratonice . However, as several Seleucid leaders also had wives named "Stratonice", the identification of the actual founder is not unchallenged. In antiquity, Stratonicea minted its own coins from the latesecond century BC irregularly until the reign ofGallienus , in the mid-third century . [http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/trajprovII.html] [http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/lydia.html] By130 BC ,Thyatira had annexed the city which had become merely a village. Stratonicea regained importance duringTrajan 's reign. EmperorHadrian renamed the city "Hadrianopolis" after himself. Archaeological finds from the site are preserved in a museum in Manisa. [http://www.kulturturizm.gov.tr/portal/arkeoloji_en.asp?belgeno=3038]Stratonicea in Lydia is a
titular see of theRoman Catholic Church , "Stratonicensis in Lydia"; the seat is currently vacant. [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3s64.html]
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