🏛️ Tavium-Sebasteia
Ruined Roman city in central Anatolia
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Sivas Province, central Türkiye, near the town of Tokat
- Founded as a Galatian settlement; became a major Roman city under Augustus
- Renamed Sebasteia in the 1st century CE after the Greek word for "venerable"
- Partially excavated; remains accessible to researchers and visitors
Tavium-Sebasteia was an important urban center in Roman Anatolia, strategically positioned along trade routes crossing the Pontic plateau. The city served as a civic and commercial hub for the Trocmi tribe of Galatians before Roman incorporation. Under Roman administration, it became known for its size, population density, and administrative significance within the province of Galatia ...