Ancyra (Galatia)

settlement · 1200 BC – 2100 AD

An ancient settlement of Phrygia, near the origin of the Mekestos river. Heavily spoliated, especially since the mid-19th century, and now cultivated, a Byzantine fortress on the hill immediately east of modern Boğazköy in Turkey's Kütahya province is uniformly identified with this ancient Ankyra. Many modern commentators have adopted the name "Ancyra Sidera" on the basis of an entry for a bishop in Latin and Syriac versions of the attendees the Council of Chalcedon (missing from the Greek witnesses), but Price 2010 asserts it may be a corruption of a lost original entry for a bishop of "Ancyra and Synaos".

Ancyra (Galatia)
Coordinates
39.94379, 32.85933
Also known as
ANCYRA Kalesi (Boğazköy) (tr), ANCYRA Kalesi (Boğazköy) (tr), Ancyra (la), Ancyra (la), Angora (grc), Angūriya, Anguriya (fa), Angūriyah, Ankara (tr), Ankara Z.A. (tr), Ankyra (grc), Ankyra Phrygias (grc), Ankyra Sidera (grc), Ankyra tes Abaeitidos (grc), Ankyranoi (grc), Ankūriya, Ankūrīye, Ankuriye, Ankuriya (fa), Anqara, Anqīra, Anqira (arb), Anḳara, Ankara, Anqara (ota), Boğazköy (tr), Boğazköy, Bogazkoy, Boğaz Köy, Bogaz Koy (tr), Engüri (ota), Engürü, Enguru (ota), Kiliseköy (tr), Kiliseköy, Kilise Köy, Kilisekoy, Kilise Koy (tr), Sebastē Tektosagōn, Sebaste Tektosagon (grc), Άνκυρανοί (grc), انكورى (ota), Ἄγκυρα (grc), Ἄγκυρα Φρυγίας (grc), Ἄγκυρα τῆς Ἀβαείτιδος (grc), ῎Αγκυρα Σιδηρα (grc)
Dating
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