Tyana

Tyana
Tyana, Cappadocia, Turkey
Tyana is located in Turkey
Tyana
Shown within Turkey
LocationKemerhisar, Niğde Province, Turkey
RegionCappadocia
Coordinates37°50′53″N 34°36′40″E / 37.84806°N 34.61111°E / 37.84806; 34.61111
TypeSettlement
Site notes
ConditionIn ruins

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.[1][2][3]

It was the capital of a Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom in the 1st millennium BC.

  1. ^ Bryce 2009, p. 726.
  2. ^ Bryce 2012, p. 148.
  3. ^ Mouton 2014, p. 249.