Anineta
Sign in to saveAnineta, also known as Aninetum or Anineton (), was a town of ancient Lydia or of Caria, and later of the Roman, and Byzantine empires, located in modern Turkey, the site of an ancient bishopric in (the Roman province of Asia) and was an important site early in christianity. Anineta remains today a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of Ephesus. In addition it minted coins bearing the legend Ἀνινησίων.
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- Instance of
- titular see
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Country
- Turkey
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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- inception
- 1933-00-00
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Anineta, also known as Aninetum or Anineton (), was a town of ancient Lydia or of Caria, and later of the Roman, and Byzantine empires, located in modern Turkey, the site of an ancient bishopric in (the Roman province of Asia) and was an important site early in christianity. Anineta remains today a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of Ephesus. In addition it minted coins bearing the legend Ἀνινησίων.
Its site is located near Bögdelik in Asiatic Turkey.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anineta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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