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Surroundings:

Tyana AqueductTyana AqueductTyana AqueductStele of Warpalawas, KemerhisarTyana, Roman PoolHittite necropolis

Location:

  • Türkiye, Kemerhisar
  • geo:37.826298,34.572544
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -2000~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

Roman Tyana in Hittite archives was Tuwanuwa/Tuwana. Kemerhisar is the site of the ancient city of Tyana and was centre of the minor Luwian state of Tuwanuwa. In Assyrian sources it is called Tuhana. In Hellenistic times Cappadocia was an independent kingdom. 17 AD Cappadocia lost independence and was converted into the Roman province of Cappadocia. In 372 during the Emperor Valens, Tyana became the capital  of Cappadocia Secunda. In Late Antiquity, the city was known as Christoupolis - "city of Christ". In the 11th century, the Turks called the city Kilisehisar (Churchfort). Later the name was replaced by the name Kemerhisar (Vaultfort), The

Sources:

  1. Dietrich Berges, Johannes Nollé: Tyana. Archäologisch-historische Untersuchungen zum südwestlichen Kappadokien (= Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien. Band 55). Habelt, Bonn 2000
  2. Richard P. Harper: Tyana (Kemerhisan/Bahçeli, Bor, Niğde) Cappadocia, Turkey. In: Richard Stillwell u. a. (Hrsg.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976
  3. https://www.alaturka.info/en/turkey-country/centralanatolia/5245-tyana-ruins-of-a-city-near-nigde-in-cappadocia

 


Nearby

Aqueduct Tyana

Aqueduct Tyana

Roman Rd

Roman Rd

Bor Stele of Warpalawa, Kemerhisar [Tuwama Stele] (2 km)

The stele in two parts originally found in 1860 during the excavations for a house construction in Kemerhisar in Niğde.


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