Tyana
Sign in to saveTyana, earlier known as Tuwana during the Iron Age, and Tūwanuwa during the Bronze Age, was an ancient city in the Anatolian region of Cappadocia, in modern Kemerhisar, Niğde Province, Central Anatolia, Turkey.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Tyana
- Ancient site.image
- Tyana,_Cappadocia,_Turkey_(23777549058).jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Tyana, Cappadocia, Turkey
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Kemerhisar, Niğde Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Cappadocia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
- Former country.native_name
- ()
- Former country.era
- Iron Age
- Former country.year_start
- ?
- Former country.year_end
- ?
- Former country.event_start
- Late Bronze Age collapse
- Former country.p1
- Hittite empire
- Former country.flag_p1
- Hittite KingdomsecXIV.png
- Former country.image_map
- Estats neohitites i arameus a Síria al segle VIII aC.png
- Former country.image_map_caption
- Tuwana (in blue) among the Neo-Hittite states.
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Bor
- Image
- Tuwanuwa - Tyana - Kemerhisar.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tyana (Kemerhisar)
- culture
- Hittites
- native label
- Τύανα
- located in/on physical feature
- Central Anatolia Region
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Encyclopedic overview
27 sectionsContents
- Name
- Geography
- Location
- Surroundings
- History
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Tuwana
- Location
- History
- Submission to the Neo-Assyrian Empire
- Imposition of Neo-Assyrian governorship
- Regained independence
- Society
- Population
- Religion
- List of rulers
- Achaemenid period
- Hellenistic period
- Roman period
- Byzantine period
- Modern period
- Ecclesiastical history
- References
- Sources
- Sources
- External links
Tyana, earlier known as Tuwana during the Iron Age, and Tūwanuwa during the Bronze Age, was an ancient city in the Anatolian region of Cappadocia, in modern Kemerhisar, Niğde Province, Central Anatolia, Turkey.
It was the capital of a Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom in the 1st millennium BC.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tyana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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