Thyateira

Thyateira in Lydia. Thyatira (Greek: Θυάτειρα, Latin: Thyatira) is an ancient Greek city located within the borders of Akhisar district of Manisa. The city is an ancient Greek city called "Pelopia" (Ancient Greek: Πελοπία) and and Semirami¹s. It was known by this name until the Hellenistic period. It was named Thiatira (Θυάτειρα) by Seleucus I Nicator in 290 BC. The city was one of the most important settlements of the Lydian state and the Kingdom of Pergamon. The city was called by this name throughout the Roman Empire until the Byzantine period. Thiatira was also the scene of a war during the Roman Empire. In 366 AD, the Cilician commander Procopius, who revolted for the Roman throne and attacked with the legions under his command, and the troops of Valens, brother of Valentinian I, the heir to the Roman throne, met in the city of Thiatira. At the end of the war, which went down in history as the Battle of Thyatira, Valens' forces prevailed and Procopius, who was captured, wand eventualy executed.

The city is one of the first seven churches of Christianity founded by St. Paul in Western Anatolia. Some of the ruins of the city of Thiatira can be seen today in the Tepe Mezarı location in Akhisar city center.

See

1. STEPHANUS OF BYZANTIUM, ETHNICA. 319.10

2. Josef Keil: Thyateira. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band VI A,1, Stuttgart 1936, Sp. 657–659.

References

1. ↑ Thyateira: Θυάτειρα, πόλις Λυδίας, ἡ πρότερον Πελόπεια καὶ Σεμίραμις.