Historical place profile
Ancyra (Phrygia)
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".
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:609305
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:609305
- Place type
- fortified-settlement, ruin, settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.153343, 28.863997
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
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".
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 62 A3 Ankyra
Source and reuse
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