Gordus or Gordos (), also known as Julia Gordus or Iulia Gordos, and possibly also known as Porotta, was an ancient Greek city located in eastern Lydia (modern western Turkey). It was a strategically important town founded by the Seleucid Kings. The Julio-Claudian emperors of the Roman Empire renamed the city Julia Gordos in the 1st century and the city minted its own coins.Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (University of California Press, 2 Nov. 1996) p209. Gordos-Julia in Lydia, Trajan, Coins. Coin of Julia Gordos under Antoninus Pius.
The city achieved the full status of a polis under the Flavian emperors.Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (University of California Press, 2 Nov. 1996)p210.
It was the home to Apollophanes the physician,Vivian Nutton, Ancient Medicine (Routledge, 2012) p409. and there is epigraphical evidence of both pagansH. Malay, Great Antiochose Basic Apollophanes A Adjusted To Zeus Around Gordos. and Christians in the town.Peter Thonemann, Inscriptions from Hadrianopolis, Tieion, Iulia Gordos and Toriaion, P H I L I A - International Journal of Ancient Mediterranean Studies Volume 1 • 2015 p82-83.
Three bishops of the town are known: Isidor attended Third Council of Constantinople, Neophytus attended the Second Council of Nicaea and Stephen attended the Photian Council of 870. No longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.Catholic Hierarchy
Its site is located near Eski Gördes in Asiatic Turkey.
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