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:''This article is about the ancient city of Colophon. For the publishing information found in a book, see [[colophon (book)]].''

'''Colophon''' (Gr. Κολοφών) was a titular see of [[Asia Minor]]. It was one of the twelve [[Ionia]]n cities, between [[Lebedos]] (ruins near Hypsili-Hissar) and [[Ephesus]] (Aya-Solouk).
The term "colophon" derives from the [[Late Latin]] ''colophon'', from the [[Greek language | Greek]] κολοφων (meaning "summit", "top", or "finishing"). It should not be confused with [[Colophon]], an ancient city in [[Asia Minor]], the name of which derives from the Latin ''colophonium'', meaning "colophony", or [[rosin]].

In Greek antiquity two sons of [[Codrus]], king of [[Athens]], established a colony there. It was the birthplace of the philosopher [[Xenophanes]] and the poet [[Mimnermus]]. It was destroyed by [[Lysimachus]], one of the successors of [[Alexander the Great]]. [[Notium]] served as the port, and in the neighbourhood was the village of Clarus, with its famous temple and oracle of [[Apollo Clarius]], where [[Calchas]] vied with [[Mopsus]] in divinatory science.

The cavalry of Colophon was renowned. Its pine trees supplied a rosin or ''colophony'' highly valued for the strings of musical instruments. In Roman times Colophon lost its importance; the name was transferred to the site of Notium, and the latter name disappeared between the [[Peloponnesian War]] and the time of Cicero.

The "Notitiae episcopatuum" mentions Colophon or Colophone, as late as the twelfth or thirteenth century, as a suffragan of Ephesus. Lequien (I, 723) gives the names of only four Bishops: St. Sosthenes (I Cor., i, 1) and St. Tychicus (Tit., iii, 12) are merely legendary; Euthalius was present at the [[Council of Ephesus]] in 431, and Alexander was alive in 451.

The ruins of the city are at the Castro of Ghiaour-Keui, an insignificant village in the vilayet of Smyrna, caza of Koush-Adasi.

''This article is a copyedited version of the text from the public domain [[Catholic Encyclopedia]]. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04128d.htm]''

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 '''Colophon''' (Gr. Κολοφών) was a titular see of [[Asia Minor]]. It was one of the twelve [[Ionia]]n cities, between [[Lebedos]] (ruins near Hypsili-Hissar) and [[Ephesus]] (Aya-Solouk).
-The term "colophon" derives from the [[Late Latin]] ''colophon'', from the [[Greek language | Greek]] &kappa;&omicron;&lambda;&omicron;&phi;&omega;&nu; (meaning "summit", "top", or "finishing"). It should not be confused with [[Colophon]], an ancient city in [[Asia Minor]], the name of which derives from the Latin ''colophonium'', meaning "colophony", or [[rosin]].
+The term "colophon" derives from the [[Late Latin]] ''colophon'', from the [[Greek language | Greek]] &kappa;&omicron;&lambda;&omicron;&phi;&omega;&nu; (meaning "summit", "top", or "finishing"). It should not be confused with [[Colophon]], an ancient city in [[Asia Minor]], the name of which derives from the Latin ''colophonium'', meaning "colophony", or rosin.
 In Greek antiquity two sons of [[Codrus]], king of [[Athens]], established a colony there. It was the birthplace of the philosopher [[Xenophanes]] and the poet [[Mimnermus]]. It was destroyed by [[Lysimachus]], one of the successors of [[Alexander the Great]]. [[Notium]] served as the port, and in the neighbourhood was the village of Clarus, with its famous temple and oracle of [[Apollo Clarius]], where [[Calchas]] vied with [[Mopsus]] in divinatory science.
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