Tavium

Tavium was an ancient and Byzantine city in the eastern part of the region of Galatia in central Asia Minor in modern Turkey.

It was the capital of the Trocmi, one of the three Celtic tribes who settled in BC named after them Galatia landscape in Asia Minor in the third century. A town in the true sense was Tavium only 21/20 BC, after the inclusion of Galatia in the Roman Empire. The town itself did not acquire greater significance lay till the Byzantine period on major roads through the central Anatolia. Tavium coined from the 1st century BC to the time of Caracalla in the 3rd century AD its own coins. In a diocese of the city, which consisted of the late antiquity until the 13th century, the titular Tavium the Roman Catholic Church is declining.

Tavium is located near the present village in the province of Yozgat Büyüknefes where some archaeological remains are present, inter alia, a city wall.

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