PIO´NIA
PIO´NIA (
Πιονία: Eth.
Pionita), a town in the interior of Mysia, on the river Satnioeis, to the northwest of Antandrus, and to the north-east of Gargara. (
Strab. xiii. p.610.) Under the Roman dominion it belonged to the jurisdiction of Adramyttium (
Plin. Nat. 5.32), and in the ecclesiastical notices it appears as a bishopric of the Hellespontine province. (Hierocl. p. 663; Sestini, p. 75.)
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