Historical place profile
Taouion/Tabia
A key junction between roads north (towards Hattusa and the Lykos River valley), south (towards Mazaka), east (towards the upper Halys River), and west (towards Ankyra), it was inhabited from the fourth millennium BCE. Greek and Roman writers mention it as the main settlement of the Galatian tribe of the Trocmi.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:619267
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:619267
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 39.858330, 34.518330
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A key junction between roads north (towards Hattusa and the Lykos River valley), south (towards Mazaka), east (towards the upper Halys River), and west (towards Ankyra), it was inhabited from the fourth millennium BCE. Greek and Roman writers mention it as the main settlement of the Galatian tribe of the Trocmi.
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 63 F1 Taouion/Tabia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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