Selendi


Selendi is a town and district of Manisa Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. According to the 2000 census, population of the district is 26,061 of which 8,095 live in the town of Selendi. The district covers an area of, and the town lies at an elevation of.
It was located in antiquity on a tributary of the Hermos River.

Ecclesiastical history

The see of Silandus was a suffragan of the see of Sardis. Suppressed under Muslim rule, it was revived as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in 1900.