Tyriaeum or Tyriaion, also spelled Tyraion, was a Roman and Byzantine era civitas in the Roman Province of Pisidia,[1] located ten parasangs from Iconium[2] It was mentioned by Xenophon, and Pliny and Strabo tell us it was between Philomelium (Akshehr) and Laodicea Combusta.
[6] Cyrus the Younger reviewed his troops for the Cilician queen[7] at Tyriaeum, Pisidia.
During the 11th century, had a substantial Christian population and was so well fortified that even after the defeat at Mantzikert 1071 the Turks were unable to capture it.
No longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
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