Cyaneae

Cyaneae
𐊜𐊂𐊀𐊏
Xban-
Theatre at Cyaneae
Cyaneae is located in Turkey
Cyaneae
Shown within Turkey
LocationAntalya Province, Turkey
RegionLycia
Coordinates36°15′03″N 29°48′20″E / 36.25083°N 29.80556°E / 36.25083; 29.80556
TypeSettlement
Site notes
ConditionIn ruins
Cities of ancient Lycia. Red dots: mountain peaks, white dots: ancient cities

Cyaneae (Ancient Greek: Κυανέαι, [ky.a.né.ai̯]; Lycian: 𐊜𐊂𐊀𐊏 Xban-), also spelled Kyaneai or Cyanae, was a town of ancient Lycia, or perhaps three towns known collectively by the name.[1] Leake observes that in some copies of Pliny it is written Cyane; in Hierocles and the Notitiae Episcopatuum it is Cyaneae.

To Spratt and Forbes, Cyaneae appeared to be a city ranking in importance with Phellus and Candyba, but in a better state of preservation. No longer a residential bishopric, Cyanae is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.

Pausanias wrote that the oracle of Apollo Thyrxeus (Ἀπόλλωνός Θυρξέως) was there.[2]

  1. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.27.
  2. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 7.21.13