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----__TOC__{{topics}}* Colossae (or Colosse) was an ancient city of [[Epistle Phrygia]] (in current day [[Turkey]]), on the [[Lycus River]], which is a tributary of the [[Maeander River]]. It was situated about 12 miles above the city of [[Laodicea]], and near the great road from [[Ephesus]] to the Colossians[[Euphrates]]. The site, located in what is now Anatolia in Turkey, has never been excavated.

Colossae or Colosse, was an ancient city of [[Phrygia]], on During the LycusHellenistic period, which is a tributary of the [[Maeander River]]. It town was situated about 12 miles above [[Laodicea]]of some mercantile importance, and near although by the great road from [[Ephesus]] to the [[Euphrates]]. The site, located first century it had dwindled greatly in what is now Anatolia in Turkey, has never been excavatedsize and significance.

In [[396 BC]], during the Persian Wars, the satrap Tissaphernes was lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of Cyrus. Pliny tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name (colossinus) to the colour of the cyclamen flower. During the Hellenistic period, the town was of some mercantile importance, although by the first century it had dwindled greatly ===History in size and significance.early church times===

The [[apostle Paul]] wrote an letter ([[Epistle to the Colossians]]) to the church at Colossae. It does not appear that he had visited this city when he wrote his epistle since he tells wrote to [[Philemon]] of his hope to visit it Colossae upon being freed from prison (see [[Philemon 1:22]]). It seems that a man named [[Epaphras]] was the founder of the Colossian church.

This ===Medieval History=== The town eventually fell into decay (, possibly due to an earthquake) and the . The Byzantine town of Chonæ (Kona) occupied a site near its ruins. A look at the classical, Byzantine, and otherwise medieval literature mentioning the site reveals a name change for part or all of Colossae to Cona or Chonae.  The town was the birthplace of the mediaeval writers Nicetas and Michael Choniates.  In Byzantine and Russian art, the theme of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Kona is intimately interlocked with the site. The Monastery of the Miracle in the Moscow Kremlin, where the Russian tsars were [[baptism|baptized]], was dedicated to the feast of the Miracle at Kona.