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The fate of the town thereafter is somewhat obscure: it re-appears in 1317 as part of the theme of "Boleron and
Mosynopolis", and its bishopric was still active, but the historian Catherine Asdracha, in her 1972 survey of the
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Kaloyan's sack and remained in ruins, proposing that it is to be identified with the town of Mesene, which the emperor and historian
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In all these instances, the see appears under the name
Maximianopolis, but in 879 it is under the name Mosynopolis that it is represented by a bishop called Paul at the
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245:Bulgarians
175:Site notes
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718:Parthey,
377:suffragan
351:Chalcedon
331:Pyrsoalis
256:) in the
180:Condition
169:Byzantine
153:Abandoned
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512:See also
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368:status.
323:Corsulae
319:Porsulae
237:Basil II
183:In ruins
161:Cultures
88:, Greece
86:Komotini
81:Location
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347:Ephesus
315:Porsula
304:Rhodope
280:Normans
271:Alexiad
262:Boleron
239:in his
224:History
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