LAGANIA
LAGANIA (
Λαγανία), a village of the Tectosagae in Galatia, 24 miles to the east of Juliopolis.
It is not mentioned by any of the classical writers, but it must afterwards have increased in importance, for during the Christian period, it was the see of a bishop, and took the name of Anastasiopolis (
Concil. Chalc. p. 662, and p. 95, where the name is misspelt
Λασανία; Itin. Ant. p. 142, where the name is
Laganeos; It. Hieros. p. 574, where we read
Agannia).
There is little doubt that the
Latania in Ptolemy (
5.1.14) and the
Rheganagalia of Hierocles (p. 697) are the same as Lagania (comp. Theod. Syc. 100.2). Kiepert, in his map of Asia Minor, identifies it with
Beg Basar. [
L.S]