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The ancient town of Tavium is located west of Büyüknefes Koy [previously Nefes]. This site was successively occupied by Hittites, Cimmerians, Persians, Celts, Greeks and Romans. Hittites` town was known as Tawa The Celtic Tavia -Tavium was the chief town of the Galatian tribe of Trocmi1
The city flourished under the Trocmi occupation in the 3th century and was the commercial center and capital of the Central Kızılırmak Region, where the Trokmi lived in the Central Anatolian Region until the 1th century BC. In the temple at Tavium there was a colossal statue of Jupiter in bronze, venerated by the Galatians.
Sources:
- Strabo, Geography 12.5.2.
- Georges Perrot, Edmond Guillaume, Jules Delbet, Exploration archéologique de la Galatie et de la Bithynie, d'une partie de la Mysie, de la Phrygie, de la Cappadoce et du Pont (Band 1) — Paris, 1872,, pp. 291-292
- TAVIUM Galatia, Turkey. The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.
- Yener, A, T. Harrison, H Pamir, "University of Chicago, Oriental Institute 2000 Yili Hatay Accana, Tayinat Hoyukleri ve Samandagi Yuzey Arastirmalari ", 19. Arastirma Sonuclari Toplantisi C.2: 289-302 (2002)
- Cilliers Breytenbach, Paulus und Barnabas in der Provinz Galatien, Brill, Studien zu Apostelgeschichte 13f.; 16,6; 18,23 & den Adressaten des Galaterbriefes, Leiden, 1996, pp. 102 , 105, 107–109
- Kurt Bittel, Kleinasiatische Studien , IstMitt n o 5, 1942, pp 6-38
Bronverwijzingen
- ↑The Trocmi possess the parts near Pontus and Cappadocia. These are the most powerful of the parts occupied by the Galatians. They have three walled garrisons: Tavium, the emporium of the people in that part of the country, where are the colossal statue of Zeus in bronze and his sacred precinct, a place of refuge