Hypaepa

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Hypaepa was an ancient town in Lydia, in western Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), known as a minor regional center in the Greco-Roman and early Christian periods.

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Hypaepa canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient town
settlement
administrativeRole local urban center
associatedWithEmpire Achaemenid Empire
Byzantine Empire
Roman Empire
countryOfModernSite Turkey
culturalInfluence Greek culture
Lydian culture
linked to: Lydians

Persian culture
flourishedInPeriod Greco-Roman period
early Christian period
hasArchaeologicalRemains ruins and surface finds
hasRole minor regional center
hasStatus bishopric in late antiquity
knownFor local cults
temples
worship of Artemis
worship of Persian deities
languageUsedHistorically Greek
Lydian
locatedIn Anatolia
Asia Minor
Lydia
modern-day Turkey
western Asia Minor
linked to: Western Anatolia

İzmir Province
locatedNear Cayster River valley
linked to: Cayster River plain

Mount Tmolus
mentionedBy Pliny the Elder
Strabo
Tacitus
modernSiteNear Günlüce
Ödemiş
partOf Byzantine Empire
Hellenistic world
linked to: Hellenistic period

Roman province of Lydia
presentStatus titular see of the Roman Catholic Church
regionOfModernSite Aegean Region of Turkey
linked to: Aegean Region
religionPracticedHistorically Christianity
Greek polytheism
Lydian religion
Zoroastrian-influenced cults
religiousSignificance early Christian community
timeOfExistence Classical antiquity
Hellenistic period
Late Antiquity
Roman Imperial period

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