A titular see of Asia Minor Cotiaeum, a titular see of Asia
Minor. Kotiaion, according to its coins, better Cotyaion, the
city of Cotys, was an ancient city of Phrygia Salutaris. Aesop
is said to have been born there. It was a center of heresy from
the second century onwards. Socrates (IV, xxviii) speaks of its
Novatian bishop. At first a simple suffragan of Synnada, it
became an autocephalous archbishopric, probably in the eighth
century, and about the tenth appears as a metropolis with three
suffragan sees, which were later increased to thirteen (?).
Lequien (I, 851) mentions ten bishops, the last in the
fourteenth century. The first is Cyrus, sent thither by
Theodosius II, after four bishops had been slain by the
inhabitants. The town preserves some ancient ruins, a Byzantine
castle and church. It was taken and plundered by Timur-Leng
(Tamerlane) in 1402. It is now the chief town of a sanjak in the
vilayet of Brusa, and is called by the Turks Kutaya. It has
about 22,000 inhabitants, including 4000 Greeks,