Tyraion
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.283, 31.904
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city on a main E-W road of Asia Minor
History
Tyriaeum or Tyriaion, also spelled Tyraion, was a Roman and Byzantine era civitas in the Roman Province of Pisidia, located ten parasangs from Iconium It was mentioned by Xenophon, and Pliny and Strabo tell us it was between Philomelium (Akshehr) and Laodicea Combusta. It is thought to be near modern Ilgın.