page_title: Hypaepa
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hypaepa / History
caption_attribution_description: ascent to Mount Bozdağ (Mount Tmolus) in İzmir Province, western Turkey
context_page_description: Hypaepa or Hypaipa was an Ancient city and bishopric in ancient Lydia, near the north bank of the Cayster River, and 42 miles from Ephesus, Ephesus and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
context_section_description: In 88 BC, Hypaepa rebelled against Mithridates VI of Pontus and was severely punished. Under Roman Emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37) it was selection as a candidate for the location of a temple dedicated to worship of the Emperor, but was rejected as being too insignificant.
  In fact, the Roman poet Ovid contrasted the great city of Sardis with what he called "little Hypaepa": Sardibus hinc, illinc parvis finitur Hypaepis.
  Coinage of Hypaepa of the 3rd century AD are extant, until the time of Emperor Gallienus.
  To judge by the number of Byzantine churches that it contained, Hypaepa flourished under the Byzantine Empire.
caption: Mount Tmolus
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