- For the genus of nolid moths, see Tyana (moth). A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Nolidae is a family of Moths with about 1400 described Species worldwide A moth is an Insect closely related to the Butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera.
Tyana (or Tyanna) was an ancient city of Anatolia, in modern south-central Turkey. Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches It was the capital of a Hittite kingdom in the 2d millennium B. The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family and established C. , and had a long history as a Greek city state and later a Christian community. Tyana was a queen in Anatolia.
Though now ruined, it is still officially the center of a Roman Catholic titular archbishopric in the former Roman province of Cappadocia Prima. In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated Bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion and others this means that they lead In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin provincia, pl provinciae) was the basic and until the Tetrarchy (circa Cappadocia (or Capadocia, Turkish Kapadokya, from Greek: Καππαδοκία / Kappadokía which in turn is from the Persian:
History
Tyana is probably the city referred to in Hittite archives as Tuwanuwa. The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family and established In Greek legend the city was first called Thoana, because Thoas, a Thracian king, was its founder (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, vi); it was in Cappadocia, at the foot of Taurus Mountains and near the Cilician Gates (Strabo, XII, 537; XIII, 587). Thrace (Тракия Trakiya or "Trakija" or Trakia, Θράκη Thráki, Trakya is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe For others with this name see Arrianus (disambiguation. Lucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon' (ca Cappadocia (or Capadocia, Turkish Kapadokya, from Greek: Καππαδοκία / Kappadokía which in turn is from the Persian: For the Taurus Mountains on the moon see Montes Taurus. For Mount Taurus outside Cold Spring New York, see Bull Hill. Strabo ( Greek: Στράβων 63/64 BC – ca AD 24 was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher.
Xenophon mentions it in his book Anabasis, under the name of Dana, as a large and prosperous city. Xenophon (Ancient Greek, Modern Greek "Ξενοφών" "Ξενοφώντας" ca This article is about the The surrounding plain was known after it as Tyanitis.
It was in a strategic position on the road to Syria via the Cilician Gates. Syria ( سوريّة or) officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic ar الجمهورية العربية السورية The Cilician Gates ( Turkish: Gülek Boğazı, "Gülek Pass" form the main pass through the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey It is the reputed birthplace of the celebrated philosopher (and reputed magician) Apollonius of Tyana in the first century.
Under Roman Emperor Caracalla the city became Antoniana colonia Tyana. The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman State during the imperial period (starting at about 27 BC Caracalla ( April 4 188 &ndash April 8, 217) born Lucius Septimius Bassianus and later After having sided with Queen Zenobia of Palmyra it was captured by Aurelian in 272, who would not allow his soldiers to sack it, allegedly because Apollonius appeared to him, pleading for its safety. Zenobia (زنوبيا 240-after 274 was a Syrian queen who lived in the 3rd century Palmyra ( Arabic: تدمر Tadmor) was in ancient times an important city of central Syria, located in an Oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus Lucius Domitius Aurelianus ( September 9, 214 or 215 &ndashSeptember or October 275 known in English as Aurelian, Roman Emperor (270&ndash275 Events By Topic Roman Empire Emperor Aurelian reconquers the kingdom of Palmyra, composed of Syria, Egypt
In 371, Emperor Valens created a second province of Cappadocia, "Cappadocia Secunda", of which Tyana became the metropolis. Events By Place Roman Empire The fortified cities of the Danube, with Sirmium at the forefront contribute to stop an invasion This article is about the Roman Emperor For other people called Valens see Valens Flavius Julius Valens ( Latin: DOMINVS A metropolis (from the Greek μήτηρ mētēr meaning 'mother' and πόλις pólis meaning 'city/town' is a big City, in most cases with
The ruins of Tyana are at modern Kemerhisar, three miles south of Niğde (in the former Ottoman province of Konya); there are remains of a Roman aqueduct and of cave cemeteries and sepulchral grottoes. Niğde is a small city and the capital of Niğde Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Konya was a vilayet in Asia Minor which included the whole or parts of Pamphylia, Pisidia, Phrygia, Lycaonia, Cilicia Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 An aqueduct is an artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another
Ecclesiastical history
As noted, in 371 Emperor Valens created the province of Cappadocia Secunda, of which Tyana became the metropolis. This article is about the Roman Emperor For other people called Valens see Valens Flavius Julius Valens ( Latin: DOMINVS This aroused a violent controversy between Anthimus, Bishop of Tyana, and St. Anthimus of Tyana was a Christian bishop of the Cappadocian city of Tyana. Basil of Caesarea, each of whom wished to have as many suffragan sees as possible. Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (c 330 – January 1, 379) (Άγιος Βασίλειος ο Μέγας Latin A suffragan bishop is a Bishop subordinate to a Metropolitan bishop or Diocesan bishop. 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 (Oriens christianus, I, 395-402) mentions 28 bishops of Tyana, among whom were:
- Eutychius, at Nice in 325
- Anthimus, the rival of St. Michel Le Quien ( Boulogne-sur-Mer 8 October 1661 – Paris 12 March 1733) was a French historian and theologian Basil
- Aetherius, at Constantinople in 381
- Theodore, the friend of St. John Chrysostom
- Eutherius, the partisan of Nestorius, deposed and exiled in 431
- Cyriacus, a Severian Monophysite. This article refers to the Christian saint For other uses of the name see Chrysostomos. Nestorius (in Greek: Νεστόριος; c 386&ndash c 451 was Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 Severian is the narrator and main character of Gene Wolfe 's four-volume novel The Book of the New Sun, as well as its sequel The Urth of the Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning 'one alone' and physis meaning 'nature' or Monophysiticism is the Christological position that
In May, 1359, Tyana still had a metropolitan (Mikelosich and Müller, "Acta patriarchatus Constantinopolitani", I, 505); in 1360 the metropolitan of Caesarea secured the administration of it (op. In Hierarchical Christian churches the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the Diocesan bishop or cit. , 537). Thenceforth the see was titular.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia [1]
- Tyana in Turkey Nigde city. Tyana and Apollonius
- Tyana (Kemerhisar)
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