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See also:ANCYRA (mod. See also:Angora, q.v.) , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Galatia in See also:Asia See also:Minor, situated on a tributary of the Sangarius . Originally a large and prosperous Phrygian city on the See also:Persian Royal Road, See also:Ancyra became the centre of the Tectosages, one of the three Gaulish tribes that settled permanently in Galatia about 232 B.C . The See also:barbarian occupation dislocated See also:civilization, and the See also:town sank to a See also:mere See also:village inhabited chiefly by the old native See also:population who carried on the arts and crafts of peaceful See also:life, while the Gauls devoted themselves to See also:war and See also:pastoral life (see GALATIA) . In 189 B.C . Ancyra was occupied by Cn . See also:Manlius Vulso, who made it his headquarters in his operations against the tribe . In 63 B.C . See also:Pompey placed it (together with the Tectosagan territory) under one See also:chief, and it continued under native See also:rule till it became the See also:capital of the See also:Roman See also:province of Galatia in 25 B.C . By this See also:time the population included Greeks, See also:Jews, See also:Romans and Romanized Gauls, but the town was not yet Hellenized, though See also:Greek was spoken . See also:Strabo (c . A.D . 19) calls it not a city, but a fortress, implying that it had none of the institutions of the Graeco-Roman city .
See also:Inscriptions and coins show that its civilization consisted of a layer of Roman ideas and customs super-imposed on See also:Celtic tribal characteristics, and that it is not until c
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See also:Christianity was introduced (from the N. or N.W.) perhaps as See also:early as the 1st See also:century, but there is no shred of See also:evidence that the Ancyran See also: The See also:original was written by the emperor in his 76th See also:year (A.D . 13-14) to be engraved on two See also:bronze tablets placed in front of his See also:mausoleum in Rome, and as a See also:mark of respect to his memory a copy was inscribed on the temple walls by the council of the See also:Galatians . Thus has been preserved an absolutely unique See also:historical document of See also:great importance, recounting (I) the numerous public offices and honours conferred on him, (2) his various benefactions to the See also:state, to the See also:plebs and to his soldiers, and (3) his military and administrative services to the See also:empire . |
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