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