Mocisus
Μωκησός
Mocisus or MOCISUM (Μωκησός, Μωκισόν) a fort in the north western part of Cappadocia, which the Emperor Justinian, at the time when he divided the country into three provinces, raised to the rank of the capital of Cappadocia III. On that occasion the place was considerably enlarged, and its name was changed into Justinianopolis. (Procop. de Aed. 5.4; Hierocl. p. 701, where it is miswritten Π̓εγεκουκουσός, for Π̓εγεμουκισός; Const. Porph. de Them. 1.2; Steph. B. sub voce Μούκισσος; Conc. Const. ii. p. 96.) It modern name is Kir Shehr.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.