Location | Kemerhisar, Niğde Province, Turkey |
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Region | Cappadocia |
Coordinates | 37°50′53″N 34°36′40″E / 37.84806°N 34.61111°E |
Type | Settlement |
Site notes | |
Condition | In ruins |
Tyana, earlier known as Tuwana during the Iron Age, and Tūwanuwa during the Bronze Age, was an ancient city in the Anatolian region of Cappadocia, in modern Kemerhisar, Niğde Province, Central Anatolia, Turkey.[1][2][3]
It was the capital of a Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom in the 1st millennium BC.