Ancyre

Ancyre is a city of the Antiquité which corresponds nowadays to current the Ankara.

The site of Ancyre is occupied as of III by the Hittites then towards 1000 av. J. - C. by the Phrygie NS. According to the legend, the city is built by the king Midas and probably bears under the hellenistic period the name of Angora . Catch in 333 av. J. - C. by Alexandre Large the, it is then occupied by the Galates during the invasions of these warriors at fourth century BC

Become Roman in 189 av. J. - C., it takes then the name of Ancyre and becomes capital Roman province of Galatie in 25 av. J. - C. the Temple of Auguste d' Ancyre, called the Monument of Ancyre , delivered the most complete specimen of the political legacy of Auguste, the LMBO gestae .

Ancyre is a city of the Byzantine Empire but is taken by the Perses then the Arab . It becomes definitively Othoman in 1360, put aside the short interlude of the conquest of Tamerlan (1402).

Iconography

With the XVII° century, Capitouls of Toulouse honoured the mythical past with the founders of this city and ordered from several artists of works on the topic of the Foundation of Ancyre by Tectosages .

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