Pionia (Mysia)

Pionia (Ancient Greek: Πιονία) or Pioniai (Πιονίαι) was a town in the interior of ancient Mysia, on the river Satnioeis, to the northwest of Antandrus, and to the northeast of Gargara.[1]

Its people believed the town was founded by Pionis, one of the descendants of Heracles. According to local tradition, whenever the inhabitants prepared a sacrifice to honor him as a hero, smoke would mysteriously rise from his tomb on its own.[2]

Under the Roman dominion it belonged to the jurisdiction of Adramyttium,[3] and in the ecclesiastical notices it appears as a bishopric of the Hellespontine province.[4] The bishop Aetius represented the city at the Council of Ephesus. No longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[5]

Its site is located near Gömeniç in Asiatic Turkey.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xiii. p. 610. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.18.4
  3. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Book 5.32.
  4. ↑ Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 663.
  5. ↑ Catholic Hierarchy
  6. ↑ Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
  7. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Pionia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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