Mistea
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.676, 31.726
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Lycaonia in modern-day Turkey
History
Mistea or Misthia also known as Claudiocaesarea (Κλαυδιοκαισαρεία), was a town of ancient Lycaonia, inhabited in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times. Misthia was the seat of an archbishop; no longer residential, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.