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🏛️ Podandos-Tyana

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🏛️ Podandos-Tyana
Roman settlement and way-station in central Anatolia


🕐 2 min read · Updated 16 Mar 2026 at 06:41
📌 Fast Facts
  • Located in Cappadocia region, central Turkey, near modern Kemerhisar
  • Served as a Roman road station (mansio) on the trade route between Tarsus and Ankara
  • Settlement flourished during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods
  • Remains largely unexcavated and accessible via local rural roads

Podandos-Tyana represents a minor but strategically important Roman settlement in ancient Cappadocia. The site functioned as a mansio—an ...

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