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Perperene[pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek:ΠερπερηνήPerperini) orPerperena (ΠερπερήναPerperina) was a city ofancient Mysia on the south-east ofAdramyttium, in the neighbourhood of which there were copper mines and good vineyards. It was anAeolian colony.[1]
Stephanus of Byzantium calls itParparon (Παρπάρων), an Aeolian city in Asia, and notes that some referred to the place as Perperene (Περπερηνή). He further explains that the male inhabitant was called a Parparonian (Παρπαρώνιος), derived from the genitive Parparonos (Παρπάρωνος), with a corresponding feminine form (Parparonia; Παρπαρωνία), whileAndrotion, in the third book of his Atthis, used the ethnic Parpariotes, a formation that appears to presuppose a place nameParparia (Παρπαρία) rather than Parparon.[1]
Ptolemy calls itPerpere orPermere.[2] According to theSuda,Hellanicus of Lesbos, a 5th-century BC Greeklogographer, died at Perperene at age 85. At a later date it was given the nameTheodosiopolis orTheodosioupolis (Θεοδοσιούπολις).[3][4]
It is located nearAşagı Beyköy, on the Kozak plateau nearBergama in theİzmir Province ofTurkey in westernAnatolia.[4][5]
Perperene was the seat of abishop; no longer a residentialbishopric, it remains atitular see of theRoman Catholic Church.[6]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Perperena".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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