Ancyra

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ancient city historical place

Ancyra is the ancient name of the city now known as Ankara, the capital of modern Turkey and a historically significant center in Anatolia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city ⓘ
historical place ⓘ
archaeologicalRemainsInclude Temple of Venus and Roma ⓘ
surface form: Roman Temple of Augustus and Rome

Roman baths ⓘ
ancient theater ⓘ
city walls ⓘ
controlledBy Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
Byzantine Empire ⓘ
Galatians ⓘ
Lydian Kingdom ⓘ
surface form: Lydians

Ottoman Empire ⓘ
Phrygians ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ
Seljuk Sultanate of Rum ⓘ
surface form: Seljuk Turks
councilDate 314 CE ⓘ
flourishedDuring Late Antiquity ⓘ
Roman Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Roman Imperial period
formerNameOf Ankara ⓘ
hosted Council of Ancyra ⓘ
inhabitedSince at least the Bronze Age ⓘ
inscriptionFamousFor Monumentum Ancyranum ⓘ
knownAs Ankyra ⓘ
Ἄγκυρα ⓘ
languageHistoricallySpoken Greek ⓘ
Latin ⓘ
Phrygian ⓘ
laterReligionsPresent Islam ⓘ
locatedIn Anatolia ⓘ
Central Anatolia Region ⓘ
surface form: Central Anatolia
locatedInHistoricalRegion Galatia ⓘ
locatedInPresentDay Ankara ⓘ
locatedInPresentDayCountry Turkey ⓘ
modernSuccessorCity Ankara ⓘ
modernSuccessorCityIsCapitalOf Turkey ⓘ
MonumentumAncyranumContains Res Gestae Divi Augusti inscription ⓘ
nameEtymology possibly derived from Greek word for "anchor" (ankyra) ⓘ
partOf Roman road network in Asia Minor ⓘ
regionNowCalled Central Anatolia Region ⓘ
religionsHistoricallyPresent Anatolian paganism ⓘ
Christianity ⓘ
Greco-Roman paganism ⓘ
religiousStatus early Christian episcopal see ⓘ
servedAs capital of the Roman province of Galatia ⓘ
important administrative center in the Byzantine Empire ⓘ
important administrative center in the Roman Empire ⓘ
significantFor role in early Christian history ⓘ
strategic position on trade and military routes in Anatolia ⓘ
strategicRole junction of routes connecting Aegean, Black Sea, and eastern Anatolia ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Galatia → capital → Ancyra ⓘ
Angora → etymologyRelatedTo → Ancyra ⓘ
Ankara → formerName → Ancyra ⓘ
Galatia → majorCity → Ancyra ⓘ