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(modern day

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Name

The name of the city appears in the form ''Bageis'' (in the genitive plural case of the name of its inhabitants, ΒΑΓΝΩΝ or ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ) on its coins, but ''Bagis'' is the form given in the '' Synecdemos'' of Hierocles, and ''Bage'' in later ''

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''. Some of its coins add the additional name of KAISAREΩN apparently denoting the additional city name of Caesarea.

Location

Inscriptions uncovered by Keppel place the ancient town near

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on the left (south) side of the Hermos River. Modern scholars pinpoint a site at Güre.

Ecclesiastical history

The episcopal

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of Bagis, being in the

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was a

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Sardis Sardis () or Sardes (; Lydian: 𐤳𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣 ''Sfard''; el, Σάρδεις ''Sardeis''; peo, Sparda; hbo, ספרד ''Sfarad'') was an ancient city at the location of modern ''Sart'' (Sartmahmut before 19 October 2005), near Salihli, ...

, the capital of the province. The acts of the

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(325) mention a Pollio as bishop of Baris in that province. Since there is no evidence of a

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of that name, Janin (1931),Raymond Janin, v. ''Bagé'', i
''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques''
vol. VI, 1932, col. 201 following

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, consider "Baris" to be an error for "Bagis", while Pétrirdès (1907), who cites

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and C. H. Turner, does not accept that correction.Sophrone Pétridès, "Bageis" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1907)
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in 449, Leonides, who was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of Lydia sent in 459 to

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with regard to the murder of

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, and Basilius and Clemens, who were at the

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, presumably one of them ordained by

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, the other by

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. Bagis must have disappeared as a residential see during the

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wars, perhaps in the 12th century, although it continued to be listed in ''

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as a

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. *Celestin Ibáñez y Aparicio,(12 Apr 1911 - 11 Apr 1946) Bishop of Yan’an enan *Jorge Marcos de Oliveira (3 Aug 1946 Appointed - 26 Jul 1954, Bishop of Santo André,

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References

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Large database of ancient coins of Bagis on wildwinds.com
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