Moutalaske

Moutalaske was a town of ancient Cappadocia, inhabited in Byzantine times. It was the birthplace of both Saint Sabas and Saint Meletios. The former, during a visit to emperor Anastasios I in Constantinople, sent money back to his home village in Moutalaske to fund the construction of a church dedicated to the Saints Cosmas and Damian.
Its site is located near Talas, Asiatic Turkey, about 6 km east of Kayseri, at the steep escarpment of a high plateau 200 m above the Kayseri basin. There are traces of a troglodyte settlement here including a monastery dedicated to Panagia and, according to Hans Rott, two cave chapels dedicated to Saints Georgios and Koimesis.