37°02′N31°38′E / 37.033°N 31.633°E /37.033; 31.633Cotenna orKotenna (Ancient Greek:Κότεννα) was a city in theRoman province ofPamphylia I in Asia Minor. It corresponds to modernGödene (Menteşbey), nearAntalya/Turkey.
Strabo (Geography, 12.7.1) mentions the Katenneis (Greek:Κατεννεῖς) inPisidia adjoiningSelge and the tribe ofHomonades (Ancient Greek:Ὁμοναδεῖς) east and north of Trogitis (Lake Suğla). An inscription has been found showing that the people called themselves Kotenneis, so that the true name of the town was Kotenna/Cotenna.Hierocles mentions it instead as Kotana in Pamphylia. It appears as Kotaina in someNotitiae episcopatuum. It has been said that the Kotenneis are the same as the Etenneis (Greek:Ετεννεῖς), mentioned byPolybius (V, 73) as living in Pisidia above Side, and who struck coins in theRoman times. The native name may have been Hetenneis, and the tribe afterwards divided into at least two districts, the northern taking the name Etenneis, while the southern preferred Kotenneis.[1]
Thebishopric of Cotenna was asuffragan ofSide, the capital andmetropolitan see of Pamphylia Prima. Of its bishops, Hesychius took part in theFirst Council of Constantinople in 381, Acacius in theCouncil of Ephesus in 431, Eugenius in theCouncil of Chalcedon in 451. Maurianus was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of the province of Pamphylia sent in 458 toByzantine EmperorLeo I the Thracian concerning the murder ofProterius of Alexandria. Flavianus was atthe synod called byPatriarch Menas of Constantinople in 536. Macarius attended thePhotianCouncil of Constantinople (879).[2][3][4]
No longer a residential bishopric, Cotenna is today listed by theCatholic Church as atitular see.[5] Since theSecond Vatican Council no new appointments oftitular bishops have been made to such Eastern sees, leaving this titular see vacant since the death of the last incumbent in 1986.
There was another see calledEtenna. A third district was perhaps also called Banaba or Manaua; for in 680 Cosmas appears as Bishop of "Kotenna and Manaua".[1]
William Mitchell Ramsay,Historical Geography of Asia Minor (London, 1890), 418;