Antioch on the Maeander


Antioch on the Maeander or Antiochia on the Maeander, earlier Pythopolis, was a city of ancient Caria, in Anatolia. The city was situated between the Maeander and Orsinus rivers near their confluence. Though it was the site of a bridge over the Maeander, it had "little or no individual history". The scanty ruins are located on a hill a few km southeast of Kuyucak, Aydın Province, Turkey, near the modern city of Başaran, or the village of Aliağaçiftliği. The city already existed when Antiochus I enlarged and renamed it. It was home to the sophist Diotrephes.
It has not been excavated, although Christopher Ratte and others visited the site in 1994 and produced a sketch plan.

Bishopric

The bishopric of Antioch on the Maeander was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Stauropolis, capital of the Roman province of Caria. Its bishop Eusebius was at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, Dionysius at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, Georgius at the Trullan Council in 692, and Theophanes at the Photian Council of Constantinople. Menophanes was deposed in 518 for Monophysitism.
No longer a residential bishopric, Antioch on the Maeander is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.

Known Bishops