Temnos or Temnus ( grc, Τῆμνος; grc-x-aeolic, Τᾶμνος) was a small Greek ''
polis'' (city-state) of
ancient Aeolis
Aeolis (; grc, Αἰολίς, Aiolís), or Aeolia (; grc, Αἰολία, Aiolía, link=no), was an area that comprised the west and northwestern region of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), mostly along the coast, and also several offshore islan ...
, later incorporated in the
Roman province
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of
Asia
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, on the western coast of Anatolia. Its
bishopric
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
was a
suffragan
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of
Ephesus
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, the capital and
metropolitan see of the province, and is included in the
Catholic Church
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's list of
titular sees.
The little town was near the
Hermus River, which is shown on its coins. Situated at elevation it commanded a view of the territories of
Cyme,
Phocaea
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, and
Smyrna. Under
Augustus
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it was already on the decline; under
Tiberius
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it was
destroyed by an earthquake; and in the time of
Pliny
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it was no longer inhabited. It was, however, rebuilt later.
One of the city's more noteworthy figures was the rhetorician
Hermagoras.
Its site is located near
Görece,
Asiatic Turkey.
Bishops
Le Quien
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mentions three bishops:
*Eustathius, who lived in 451;
*Theophilus, present at the
Council of Nice (787);
*Ignatius, at Constantinople (869).
This see is not mentioned in the ''
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In the Roman Church (the -mostly Lat ...
''. Ramsay (''Asia Minor'', 108) thought the diocese of Temnus identical with that of
Archangelus, which from the tenth to the thirteenth century the ''Notitiae Episcopatuum'' assigns to
Smyrna. In 1413 the Turks seized the fortress of Archangelus, which they called Kaiadjik, i.e., small rock; this fortress was situated on the plains of Maenomenus, now known as
Menemen
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.
See also
*
List of ancient Greek cities
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References
;Attribution
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Cities in ancient Aeolis
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Former populated places in Turkey
Geography of İzmir Province
History of İzmir Province
Populated places in ancient Aeolis
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey
Greek city-states
Menemen District
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