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Tavium, or
Tavia, was the chief city of the
Galatian tribe of
Trocmi, one of the three
Celtic tribes which migrated from the
Danube Valley to Galatia in the
3rd century BCE. Owing to its position on the high roads of commerce was an important trading post. The site was successively occupied by
Hittites,
Cimmerians,
Persians, Celts,
Greeks, Romans, and
Ottoman Turks. At the time of the
Roman Empire, Tavium was an important crossroads and a stopping place on the caravan routes.
One of the few things we do know about Tavium was that there was metalworking, because coins have been found that were minted there in the early
1st century bearing the likenesses of
Marcus Aurelius and
Elagabalus. Copper, tin, iron and silver were mined in the nearby mountains. If we can draw parallels with other Celtic sites of the time, the smelting and stamping was done by a small group of artisans working in one or two stone huts.
In the temple at Tavium there was a colossal statue of
Jupiter in
bronze, greatly venerated by the Galatians. There was some doubt about the exact site of the city, but it's today generally believed to be the ruins situated close to the village of Nefez Keui (today known as
Büyüknefes), inhabited during the winter by nomadic Turkish tribes, lying in a very fertile plain east of Halys in the caza of Songourlou and the vilayet of
Ankara.
These ruins were partly used in building the neighbouring village of
Yuzgat. We find there the remains of a theatre and possibly of a temple of Jupiter; these have a number of inscriptions, mostly
Byzantine. In the
Notitiæ Episcopatuum this see is mentioned up to the
13th century as the first suffragan of Ancyra.
he names of five bishops of the area are known: Dicasius, present at the Councils of Neocæsarea and Nice; Julian, at the Robber Synod of Ephesus (449), and at the Council of Chalcedon (451), and a signer of the letter from the Galatian bishops to the Emperor Leo (458); Anastasius, present at the Council of Constantinople (553); Gregory at the Council in Trullo (692); Philaretus at Constantinople (869).
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