Dionysiopolis (Ancient Greek:Διονυσιόπολις, "city ofDionysus") orDionysopolis (Διονύσου πόλις), was a city ofPhrygia inAsia Minor. The demonymDionysopolitae (Διονυσοπολίτης) occurs on coins, and in a letter of M. Cicero to his brother Quintus,[1] in which he speaks of the people of Dionysopolis being very hostile to Quintus, which must have been for something that Quintus did during hispraetorship ofAsia.Pliny places the Dionysopolitae in theconventus ofApamea,[2] which is all the ancient writers note of their position. We may infer from the coin that the place was on theMaeander, or near it.Stephanus of Byzantium says that it was founded byAttalus andEumenes.[3] Stephanus mentions another Dionysopolis in Pontus, originally called Cruni, and he quotes two verses of Scymnus about it;[3] however, the town ofDionysupolis inThrace but on thePontus, rather thanin Pontus could be meant.
Dionysiopolis was important enough in the LateRoman province ofPhrygia Pacatiana to become a bishopric,suffragan of its Metropolitan ArchbishopricHierapolis in Phrygia, but was to fade. No longer a residential bishopric it is a titular see.
Its site is tentatively located near modernBekilli,Turkey.[4][5]
The diocese was nominally restored in the 20th century as aRoman Catholictitular bishopric.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Dionysopolis".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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