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

Numidia

Numidia was an ancient Berber kingdom in part of present-day Eastern Algeria and Western Tunisia in North Africa. It is known today as the Chawi-land, the land of the Chawi people , the direct descendants of the historical Numidians or the Massyles The kingdom began as a sovereign state and later...

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Bageis, Bagis, or Bage was a city in the former Roman province of Lydia

Lydia

Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian....

 in Asia Minor

Asia Minor

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 (modern Turkey

Turkey

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History

This name is found on Roman coins, but becomes Bagis in the Synecdemos of Hierocles

Hierocles (author of Synecdemus)

Hierocles or Hierokles was a Byzantine geographer of the sixth century and the attributed author of the Synecdemus or Synekdemos, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of the cities of each...

 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.

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

Episcopal See

An episcopal see is, in the original sense, the official seat of a bishop. This seat, which is also referred to as the bishop's cathedra, is placed in the bishop's principal church, which is therefore called the bishop's cathedral...

 of Bagis was a suffragan of Sardis

Sardis

Sardis or Sardes was an ancient city at the location of modern Sart in Turkey's Manisa Province...

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We know really only three bishops of Bageis:

• Chrysaphius, or Chrysanthus, at the First Council of Ephesus (431)
• Leonides, who subscribed the letter of the Lydian bishops to the Emperor Leo I (458)
• Basilius, at the Photian council (879). The city still figures in a list about 1170-79.

It remains a Roman Catholic titular see

Titular see

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, under the Italian name Bagi.