Şuhut (Synnada)

Ancient city in Phrygia Salutaris (part of Eastern Phrygia, or Parorea). According to tradition Synnada have been founded by Acamas who went to Phrygia after the Trojan with some Macedonian colonists. Excavations prooved that the town was established during the Hittite period. During Hellenistic period Synnada belonged to the kingdom of the Attalids. It was still a small town during the time of Strabo¹.  In the meantime, Pliny wrote, Synnada had become an important center, and served as a judicial center (conventus juridicus) for the entire surrounding region. In 189 BC Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso passed through that city on his expeditions against the Galatians. On their coins—which ceased to be minted after the reign of Gallienus—the inhabitants of Synnada identified themselves as Dorians and Ionians. With the establishment of Phrygia Pacatiana during the reign of Diocletian, Synnada, situated at the intersection of two major roads, became a metropolis. Christianity was introduced into Synnada very early and according to the Martyrologium Hieronymianum  was strong what reuslted in many martyrdoms²Synnada remains a Roman Catholic Titular metropolis.

See:

1. Livy, History of Rome 20.107.3 ; 38.15; 45.34
2. Strabo Geography
3. Pliny the Elder, Natural History XXXVI,  5.105
4. Eusebius, Church History VI.19
5. Peter Thonemann, The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium, Cambridge University Press 2011, diff.
6. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
7. Synnada-http://catholicencyclopedia.newadvent.com/cathen/14387a.htm
8. Synnada, http://www.summagallicana.it/lessico/s/Sinnada.htm
9. T. Drew-Bear, 1996, Map 62 Phrygia, http://assets.press.princeton.edu/B_ATLAS/BATL062_.pdf
10. Synnada in Phrygia https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3s31.html
11. Tabula Imperii Byzantini - 7. Phrygia - Pisidia. By H. Hellenkemper & F. Hild. (1990)  https://archive.org/details/Tabula-imperii-Byzantini/Tabula%20imperii%20Byzantini/TIB/TIB%207%20Belke%20K.%2C%20Mersich%20N._Phrygien%20und%20Pisidien

References

1. ↑Synnada is not a large city; but there lies in front of it a plain planted with olives, about sixty stadia in circu
2. ↑ For whenever persons able to instruct the brethren are found, they are exhorted by the holy bishops to preach to the people. Thus in Laranda, Euelpis by Neon; and in Iconium, Paulinus by Celsus; and in Synada, Theodorus by Atticus, our blessed brethren. And probably this has been done in other places unknown to us.