Tavium
Tavium was an ancient and Byzantine city in the eastern part of the Galatia countryside in the center of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey.
It was the main town of the Trokmer , one of the three Celtic tribes that settled in the 3rd century BC. In the region named after them Galatia in Asia Minor. Tavium only became a city in the true sense of the word in 21/20 BC. After the incorporation of Galatia into the Roman Empire. The city itself did not acquire any major importance, but was on important roads through central Anatolia until the Byzantine period. Tavium coined from the 1st century BC Until the time of Caracalla in the 3rd century AD. Own coins. The titular diocese of Tavium of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to a diocese of the city that existed from late antiquity to the 13th century .
Tavium is located near the present-day village of Büyüknefes in the province of Yozgat , where some archaeological remains, including a city wall, are present.
literature
- Cilliers Breytenbach: Paul and Barnabas in the province of Galatia . Brill, Leiden 1996, ISBN 90-04-10693-6 , pp. 102, 105, 107-109 ( excerpts from Google Book Search ).
- Stephen Mitchell: Tavium, Galatia, Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Stephen Mitchell: Anatolia. Land, men, and gods in Asia Minor . Volume 1: The Celts in Anatolia and the impact of Roman rule . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-19-815029-6 , p. 51 and ö. ( Excerpts from Google Book Search ).
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Coordinates: 39 ° 52 ' N , 34 ° 32' E