Gordus or Gordos (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Γόρδος), also known as Julia Gordus or Iulia Gordos, and possibly also known as Porotta, was an ancient Greek city located in eastern Lydia (modern western Turkey). It was a strategically important town founded by the Seleucid Kings. The Julio-Claudian emperors of the Roman Empire renamed the city Julia Gordos in the 1st century and the city minted its own coins.[1] [2] [3]
The city achieved the full status of a polis under the Flavian emperors.[4]
It was the home to Appolophanes the physician,[5] and there is epigraphical evidence of both pagans[6] and Christians in the town.[7]
Three bishops of the town are known: Isidor attended Third Council of Constantinople, Neophytus attended the Second Council of Nicaea and Stephen attended the Photian Council of 870. No longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[8]
Its site is located near Eski Gördes in Asiatic Turkey.