{"slug": "tyana", "label": "Tyana", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyana", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1423615", "qid": "Q1423615", "description": "ancient city of Cappadocia in modern-day Turkey", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [272, 831], "span_label": ["272 CE", "831 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "umayyad-caliphate", "label": "Umayyad Caliphate", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "arabbyzantine-wars", "label": "Arab–Byzantine wars", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arab-muslims", "label": "Arab Muslims", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "al-ma-mun", "label": "Al-Ma'mun", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 272, "year_label": "272 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "As part of a strategy of clemency, Aurelian spares Tyana after capturing the city. This strategy encourages units under Zenobia to defect to Aurelian.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371192173#Roman_Empire", "title": "272", "revid": 1371192173, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 276, "year_label": "276 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Tacitus dies in Tyana, Cappadocia. He either dies of illness, or is murdered by the faction responsible for having assassinated Aurelian and Maximinus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267074469#Roman_Empire", "title": "276", "revid": 1267074469, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 364, "year_label": "364 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 17", "text": "February 17 – Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route back to Constantinople, in suspicious circumstances.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332420284#Roman_Empire", "title": "364", "revid": 1332420284, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 707, "year_label": "707 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Arab–Byzantine War: An Umayyad army under Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik invades Asia Minor, and lays siege to Tyana (Cappadocia). The fortress city resists, dragging the siege through the winter and into 708.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807099#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "AD 707", "revid": 1340807099, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 708, "year_label": "708 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Arab–Byzantine War: The Umayyads under Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik capture and sack the Byzantine city of Tyana (Cappadocia) after a prolonged siege, and following a victory over a Byzantine relief army. Maslamah also leads another expedition in the summer, raiding and conquering Amorium (modern Turkey).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807106#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "708", "revid": 1340807106, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 831, "year_label": "831 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Muslim Arabs under Caliph Al-Ma'mun launch an invasion into Anatolia (modern Turkey), and capture a number of Byzantine forts. Heraclea Cybistra and Tyana fall to the Arabs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941627#Abbasid_Empire_and_Byzantine_Empire", "title": "831", "revid": 1340941627, "section": "Events › By place › Abbasid Empire and Byzantine Empire"}}]}