Mostene (Μοστήνη), also called Mosteni or Mostenoi (Μοστηνοί), or Mostina (Μόστινα), or Mustene or Moustene (Μουστήνη), is a Roman and Byzantine era city in the Hyrcanian plain of ancient Lydia. The town minted its own coin of which many examples exist today.[1] In 17 CE the city was hit by an earthquake and was assisted with relief from Tiberius.
There is debate, based on a line in Tacitus,[2] over whether Mostene was a Macedonian Colony. Cranmer[3] argues for the Macedonian ethnos while Getzel M. Cohen[4] argues for a native Lydian population.
Its site is tentatively located near Sancaklıbozköy in Asiatic Turkey.
Mostene was also the site of a Bishopric. The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Sardis and remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church to this day .[5] The diocese was suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Sardis under Patriarchate of Constantinople.