Bageis

This page concerns Lydian Bageis, Bagis or Bage, not to be confounded with Bagæ in Numidia.

Bageis, Bagis, or Bage was a city in the former Roman province of Lydia in Asia Minor (modern Turkey).[1]

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History

This name is found on Roman coins, but becomes Bagis in the Synecdemos of Hierocles and Bage in later Notitiæ gracæ episcopatuum. Bageis takes the epithet Cæsarea 'of caesar', i.e. imperial (foundation?) and names the River Hermos on its coins. [2]

Location

It has been placed by Keppel's inscriptions near Sirghe on the Hermos River; but the site of the city is said to be on the north bank, while Sirghe is on the south side of the river.

Ecclesiastical history

The episcopal see of Bagis was a suffragan of Sardis.

We know really only three bishops of Bageis:[3]

It remains a Roman Catholic titular see, under the Italian name Bagi.

References

  1. ^ Bageis - Catholic Encyclopedia article
  2. ^ Asia Minor Coins - Roman coins from ancient Bageis
  3. ^ Harnack (Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten, 486) maintains that its bishop was present at the First Council of Nicaea, but this is an error caused by a confusion with Baris, another Lydian city; the lists edited by Heinrich Gelzer and C. H. Turner are silent about Bageis.
  4. ^ placed wrongly by Lequien in a non-existent see, Balcea or Balicia