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MILITOPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Miletopolis, a town in the north of Mysia, at the confluence of the
rivers Macestus and Rhyndacus, and on the west of the lake which derives its name
from it. (Strab. xii. p. 575, xiv. p. 681; Steph. B. s. v.; Plin. v. 32, 40.)
Some modern geographers, as D'Anville and Mannert, have identified Miletopolis
with the modern Beli Kessr or Balikesri, but this place is situated too far S.
Leake, too, seems to place Miletopolis too far SW. of the lake, and identifies
it with Minias, which others regard as the site of the ancient Poemanenum. The
most probable view is, that the site of Miletopolis is marked by the modern Moalitsh
or Muhalitsch, or by the place Hamamli, near which many ruins of an ancient town
are found. (Hamilton, Researches, &c., vol. i. p. 81. &c., vol. ii. p. 91.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A city of Mysia.
A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Cyzicus. Miletopolis was a town north of Mysia, at the confluence of the Macestus and the Rhyndacus, west of Lake Miletopolitis Limne. There seems to have been a tribe there, called Milatζ, of which Miletopolis was the chief town and whose name was hellenized in order to suggest a colony from Miletus. Nothing is known of the history of Miletopolis except that its inhabitants served to colonize the city of Gargara. It has been identified with Bali-Kesser, Manias, Mikhalitch; but the first two identifications are certainly erroneous and the third doubtful. It was more probably located at Hammamli, in the vilayet of Brusa, where the remains of an ancient town can be seen. Miletopolis figures in the "Notitiζ episcopatuum" among the suffragan sees of Cyzicus until the twelfth or thirteenth century; toward the end of the twelfth it was united with the See of Lopadium, as an archbishopric and later as metropolis. Le Quien (Oriens Christ., I, 779) gives the names of some twelve bishops of Miletopolis; the first is Philetus, a contemporary of St. Parthenius, Bishop of Lampsacus, born at Miletopolis, in the beginning of the fourth century.
S.Pitridos, ed.
Transcribed by: Douglas J. Potter
This text is cited July 2004 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
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