Tyriaeum or Tyriaion, also spelled Tyraion, was a Roman and Byzantine era civitas in the Roman Province of Pisidia,[1] located ten parasangs from Iconium[2] It was mentioned by Xenophon, and Pliny and Strabo tell us it was between Philomelium (Akshehr) and Laodicea Combusta.[3][4] It is tentatively identified with ruins near modern Teke Kozağaçi (Turkey) on the road from Antalya to Denizli[5] or near modern Ilgın.[6]
History
Cyrus the Younger reviewed his troops for the Cilician queen[7] at Tyriaeum, Pisidia.[8] The town formed then part of the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire.
During the 11th century, had a substantial Christian population and was so well fortified that even after the defeat at Mantzikert 1071 the Turks were unable to capture it.[9]
The town was taken by Suleiman the Magnificent and Tamerlane.[10] In 1308 during the Crusades there was a massacre of refugees from Ephesus in this town by Sultan Abu Zayyan I.[11]
Bishopric
The city was the seat of an ancient Bishopric. Bishop Theotececnus[12] cast a vote at the Council of Chalcedon. No longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[13]Tyriaeum was long mistaken as the site of Thyatira of the Apocalypse.
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