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| Location | Kemerhisar,Niğde Province,Turkey |
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| Region | Cappadocia |
| Coordinates | 37°50′53″N34°36′40″E / 37.84806°N 34.61111°E /37.84806; 34.61111 |
| Type | Settlement |
| Site notes | |
| Condition | In ruins |
Tyana, earlier known asTuwana during the Iron Age, andTūwanuwa during the Bronze Age, was an ancient city in theAnatolian region ofCappadocia, in modernKemerhisar,Niğde Province,Central Anatolia,Turkey.[1][2][3]
It was the capital of aLuwian-speakingNeo-Hittite kingdom in the 1st millennium BC.
The name of the city wasTūwanuwa (𒌷𒌅𒌋𒉿𒉡𒉿[4]) during the Hittite Empire,[1][2] andTuwana[5] (𔑢𔗬𔐤𔔂[6]) in theLuwian language during the Syro-Hittite period.[1][2] From the Luwian nameTuwana were derived:
The location of the Hittite Tūwanuwa/Neo-Hittite Tuwana/Classical Tyana corresponds to the modern-day town ofKemerhisar inNiğde Province,Turkey.[16][17][18][19]
The region around Tyana, which corresponded to roughly the same area as the former Iron Age kingdom of Tuwana, was known in Classical Antiquity as Tyanitis.[2][20][21]
According to later Hittite sources, Tūwanuwa was an important cult centre,[16] and its local pantheon was headed by the Storm-godTarḫunzas of Tūwanuwa and his consort, the goddess Šaḫḫaššara of Tūwanuwa.[22][23]
The city of Tūwanuwa was first mentioned in the texts of theHittite Empire, as a city located in southeastern Anatolia, in the northern regions of theLower Land. According to theTelipinu Proclamation, Tūwanuwa was part of the territories that the 17th century BC founder-king of the Hittite Old Empire,Labarna I, had conquered and which his sons divided among each other and established their rule there.[1][3]
During the reign of the Hittite Middle Empire's kingTudhaliya III, the cities of Tūwanuwa andUda had become border towns of the forces ofArzawa after it had invaded the Lower Land.[24][3] Tūwanuwa itself was attacked by Arzawa, and Hittite records of this development associated Tūwanuwa with the town of Tupazziya and Mount Ammuna. Hittite descriptions of the city suggest that Tūwanuwa itself might have been located on a hill or a mountain at this time.[3]
The princeSuppiluliuma fought a battle against the Arzawan forces near Tūwanuwa and recaptured Tūwanuwa, which then became a base from which the Hittite forces reconquered the Lower Land from Arzawa.[24]
Several Hittite texts associated Tūwanuwa with the cities ofNenašša andḪupišna, attesting that they were located close to each other. The city ofPurušḫattum was also located close to Tūwanuwa.[3]
𔑢𔗬𔐤𔔂 (Tuwana) | |||||||
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| c. 12th century BC ?–c. 7th century BC ? | |||||||
 Tuwana (in blue) among theSyro-Hittite states. | |||||||
 Tabal among the Neo-Hittite states. Tuwana was one of the constituent states of Tabal. | |||||||
| Capital | Tuwana | ||||||
| Common languages | Luwian Phrygian | ||||||
| Religion | Luwian religion | ||||||
| King | |||||||
| Warpalawas I | |||||||
| Sarruwannis | |||||||
• ? –c. 740 BC | Muwaḫḫaranis I | ||||||
| Warpalawas II | |||||||
| Muwaḫḫaranis II | |||||||
| Vassal ofTabal (mid 8th century BC) Vassal of theNeo-Assyrian Empire (c. 740s - 705 BC) | |||||||
| Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||
| c. 12th century BC ? | |||||||
• Disestablished | c. 7th century BC ? | ||||||
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| Today part of | Turkey | ||||||
After the collapse of the Hittite Empire, Tūwanuwa became the centre of theLuwian-speakingSyro-Hittite state of Tuwana[1] in theregion of Tabal, in whose southernmost regions it was located.[2][18]
The kingdom of Tuwana was located in southernCappadocia and covered the territory located in the present-dayprovince of Niğde in Turkey,[25] lying to the east of theKonya Plain and the Obruk Plateau acrossLake Tuz and the Melendiz Mountains until theHasandağ volcano to the north,[18][26] where the Erdaş and Hodul mountains formed its northern boundary by separating it from thekingdom of Tabal,[18] while to the south it extended to the south until theCilician Gates[27][26] so that Tuwana was the first area travellers would reach after leavingḪiyawa to the north by passing through the Cilician Gates to cross the Taurus Mountains.[18] Tuwana thus corresponded to the region which later in Classical Antiquity was called Tyanitis.[27][21][28]
Tuwana was therefore located in the southern Tabalian region,[15] of which it was the largest and most prominent kingdom, with its territory consisting of several settlements surrounding the royal capital at the city of Tuwana,[1][2] although the city of Naḫitiya (modernNiğde; possibly Hittite period Naḫita[29]) might have temporarily acted as capital under the reign of the king Sarruwannis.[30] Another important settlement in Tuwana was the location known in Classical Antiquity asTynna and presently as Porsuk-Zeyve Höyük.[26]
By the 8th century BC, Tuwana's territory included the Mount Mudi,[31] which was likely identical with the "alabaster mountain," Mount Mulî, which the Neo-Assyrian kingShalmaneser III climbed and from where he extractedalabaster during his campaign in the Tabalian region in 837 BCE. The nameMulî (𒈬𒇷𒄿[32][33][34][35]) was the Akkadian form of a Luwian original nameMudi (𔑿𔑣)[36][37][38][39] which had experienced the Luwian sound shift from/d/ to/l/.[40][41]
Based on the close association of the "silver mountain," Mount Tunni, with Mount Mulî in the Neo-Assyrian records, both of these mountains were located close to each other, in the northeastern end of theBolkar and Taurus Mountains, where are presently located the silver mines of Bulgarmaden and thegypsum mine atPorsuk-Zeyve Höyük.[40][42]
Tuwana was a state whose population was descended from the largelyLuwian inhabitants of the former Hittite region of Tūwanuwa.[2]
Tuwana might have been ruled by a single dynasty consisting of the kings Warpalawas I, followed by his son Sarruwannis, who was succeeded by his own son Muwaḫḫaranis I, himself succeeded by his sonWarpalawas II, whose son and successor was Muwaḫḫaranis II.[1][43]
Tuwana was spared by the Neo-Assyrian king Shalmaneser III's invasion of the Tabalian region which he conducted in 837 BC.[44]
Byc. 738 BC, the Tabalian region, including Tuwana, had become a tributary of theNeo-Assyrian Empire, either after the Neo-Assyrian kingTiglath-pileser III's (r. 745 – 727 BCE) conquest of Arpad over the course of 743 to 740 BC caused the states of the Tabalian region to submit to him, or possibly as a result of a campaign of Tiglath-pileser III in Tabal.[45][13][46]
Consequently, the longest reigning king of Tuwana,Warpalawas II, was mentioned in the records of the Neo-Assyrian Empire as one of five kings who offered tribute to Tiglath-Pileser III in 738 and 737 BC.[1][47]
Tuwana was a powerful state under Warpalawas II, under whose reign it contained one sub-kingdom whose capital was at the site corresponding to present-dayPorsuk, and whose ruler Tarḫunazzas declared himself to be the "servant" of Warpalawas.[40][43][47]
By the time of the Neo-Assyrian kingSargon II (r. 722 – 705 BC), Tuwana was one of the last still independent Tabalian kingdoms, although it was coming under the pressure of both the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the kingdom ofPhrygia because of its location between these two powers,[1][47] and some Old Phrygian inscriptions on basalt, possibly dated from Warpalawas II's reign, as well as the Phrygian robe depicted as worn by Warpalawas II in hisİvriz monument, suggest that aspects of Phrygian culture were arriving into Tuwana during the late 8th century BC in the time of Warpalawas II.[48]
Warpalawas II nevertheless appears to have carried out a policy of cooperation with the Neo-Assyrian Empire, thanks to which he was able to keep his throne until thec. 700s BC.[48]
And, after Sargon II had annexed the kingdom of Tabal, then reorganised as the kingdom of Bīt-Burutaš, and deported its king Ambaris in 713 BC, he increased Tuwana's territory in the broader Tabalian region by giving Warpalawas II part of the territory of Bīt-Burutaš.[1]
Tuwana however appears to have come under direct Assyrian rule during the later years of Warpalawas II's reign, especially following the annexation of the kingdom of Tabal, then reorganised as the kingdom of Bīt-Burutaš, and the deportation of its king Ambaris in 713 BC, after which Sargon II appointed one Aššur-šarru-uṣur as governor of Que based in Ḫiyawa who also held authority onḪilakku and the Tabalian region, including both Bīt-Burutaš and Tuwana.[49][31][50]
Thus Tuwana and other nearby Anatolian kingdoms were placed the authority of Aššur-šarru-uṣur.[1][31][51] Following the appointment of Aššur-šarru-uṣur, Warpalawas II of Tuwana andAwarikus of Ḫiyawa became largely symbolic rulers although they might have still held the power to manage their kingdoms locally.[20]
The reason for these changes was due to the fact that, although Warpalawas II and Awarikus had been loyal Neo-Assyrian vassals, Sargon II considered them as being too elderly to be able to efficiently uphold Neo-Assyrian authority in southeastern Anatolia, where the situation had become volatile because of encroachment by the then growing power ofPhrygian kingdom.[20] Tuwana nevertheless appears to have continued to thrive as a Neo-Assyrian vassal during the rules of Warpalawas II and his son and successor, Muwaḫḫaranis II.[52]
Some cities in these new territories from Bīt-Burutaš which Sargon II had assigned to Warpalawas II were later attacked and occupied by Atuna and Ištuanda inc. 710 BC.[1]
The last known king of Tuwana was Muwaḫḫaranis II, the son of Warpalawas II.[1][47] As in the latter part of his father's reign, Tuwana during the rule of Muwaḫḫaranis II was under direct rule of the Neo-Assyrian governor Aššur-šarru-uṣur.[31]
Muwaḫḫaranis II might have continued to rule in Tabal into the 7th century BC,[53] by which time Neo-Assyrian control of the Tabalian region had ended.[54]
A late 8th century BC king named Masauraḫissas[55] is also attested from an inscription at Porsuk-Zeyve Höyük, although it is uncertain whether he was the king of another state (he is commonly assumed to have been a ruler of Tunna), or whether he ruled in Tuwana after Muwaḫḫaranis II.[56][57] Masauraḫissas's name might possibly have been a Luwianisation of a Phrygian nameMasa Urgitos.[58]
Byc. 675 BC, Neo-Assyrian sources no longer referred to the local Tabalian kings, suggesting that they, including Tuwana, might have been annexed by the king Iškallû of Tabal proper, after which it became part of the united kingdom of Tabal and Melid of the king Mugallu.[59]
The situation of Tuwana following the loss of Neo-Assyrian control over the Tabalian region after 705 BC is unknown, although the survival of the city's name until the Classical period suggests that there was no significant cultural break there after the end of the 8th century BC.[52]
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By the Graeco-Roman period, the city became known as Tyana (Ancient Greek:Τυανα,romanized: Tuana;Latin:Tyana), and the country around it as Tyanitis (Ancient Greek:Τυανιτις,romanized: Tuanitis;Latin:Tyanitis).[16][3]
In Greek legend, the city was first called Thoana because Thoas, aThracian king, was its founder (Arrian,Periplus Ponti Euxini, vi); it was inCappadocia, at the foot of theTaurus Mountains and near the Cilician Gates (Strabo, XII, 537; XIII, 587). According to Strabo the city was renamed as "Eusebeia at the Taurus", likely due to its refoundation byAriarathes V Eusebes. In the first century B.C., the city had agymnasium.[69]
Xenophon mentions it in his bookAnabasis,[69] under the name ofDana, as a large and prosperous city. The surrounding plain was known after it asTyanitis.
In the first century of Roman rule of Cappadocia, the city was one of the only four major "cities" in the region and among those the most hellenised and therefore the closest to a Roman city.[70] Tyana is the reputed birthplace of the celebrated philosopher (and reputed saint or magician)Apollonius of Tyana in the first century AD.Ovid (Metamorphoses VIII) places the tale ofBaucis and Philemon in the vicinity.
UnderRoman EmperorCaracalla, the city becameAntoniana colonia Tyana. After having sided first with theSassanid rulerShapur in 260 and then QueenZenobia ofPalmyra,it was captured by emperorAurelian in 272, who would not allow his soldiers to sack it, allegedly becauseApollonius appeared to him. It is more likely though that the city was its strategic importance in a fertile plain and as a major stop linking Anatolia with Cilicia.[71]
In 372, EmperorValens split theprovince of Cappadocia in two, and Tyana became the capital and metropolis ofCappadocia Secunda, and the city was sometimes referred to asChristoupolis (Medieval Greek:Χριστούπολις,lit. 'city of Christ') inLate Antiquity.[72] Due to its location, the city was on one of themajor Christian pilgrim routes in the empire and also had its own local saints such as Orestes, who according to tradition wasmartyred in Late Antiquity in Tyana and remained a venerated figure in Cappadocia up to the tenth century at least.[73]
In the fifth century, Cooper and Decker estimate that the city had possibly a population of no more than 10,000.[74] Being located around 30 km to the north of the Cilician Gates, Tyana lied on the main road between Constantinople and the Levant. Following theMuslim conquests and the establishment of the frontier between theByzantine Empire and theCaliphate along theTaurus Mountains, this made Tyana a recurrent target of raids by theUmayyad and thenAbbasid Caliphates in 708, 806 and 831:[72]
The city was again taken and razed by the Abbasids underAl-Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun in 831.[77] Abbas rebuilt the site three years later as an Abbasid military colony in preparation for Caliphal-Ma'mun's planned conquest of Byzantium, but after Ma'mun's sudden death in August 833 the campaign was abandoned by his successoral-Mu'tasim and the half-rebuilt city was razed again.[78][79]
Tyana finally entered into a permanent phase of decline after 933[72] and was replaced by a number of nearby settlements. In the Middle and Late Byzantine periods the city recovered somewhat as a place of relative agricultural and commercial importance, but it never hosted more than a few thousand inhabitants.[80]
Insignificant ruins of the Byzantine city are still visible at the site of Tyana in the present.[72]
As noted, in 372 EmperorValens created the province ofCappadocia Secunda, of which Tyana became the metropolis. This aroused a violent controversy betweenAnthimus, Bishop of Tyana, and St.Basil of Caesarea, each of whom wished to have as manysuffragan sees as possible. About 640 Tyana had three, and it was the same in the tenth century (Heinrich Gelzer, "Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiae episcopatum", 538, 554).
Le Quien mentions 28 bishops of Tyana,[81] among whom were:
In May 1359, Tyana still had ametropolitan (Mikelosich and Müller, "Acta patriarchatus Constantinopolitani", I, 505); in 1360 themetropolitan of Caesarea secured the administration of it (op. cit., 537). Thenceforth the see was titular.
In 2020, during excavations the archaeologists discovered an octagonal church and coins dated to the 4th century.[82]
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