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In the aftermath of the battle the Celts settled in northern Phrygia, a region that eventually came to be known as Galatia. [7] The Seleucids built a series of forts at Thyatira, Akrasos and Nakrason and placed garrisons at Seleucia Sidera, Apamea, Antioch of Pisidia, Laodicea on the Lycus, Hierapolis, Peltos and Vlandos to limit Galatian raids.
Galatia (/ ɡ ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə /; ... who settled here and became a small transient foreign tribe in the 3rd century ... The fate of the Galatian people is a subject ...
Galatia was a region of Central Anatolia settled by the Gauls after their invasions in the mid-3rd century BC. From then until 62 BC, the Galatians ruled themselves by means of decentralized Tetrarchies , but in 62, the Romans established a Kingdom of Galatia, which lasted around 35 years.
Galatia declined and at times fell under Pontic ascendancy. They were finally freed by the Mithridatic Wars , in which they supported Rome. In the settlement of 64 BC, Galatia became a client state of the Roman empire, the old constitution disappeared, and three chiefs (wrongly styled "tetrarchs") were appointed, one for each tribe.
Kings of Galatia (3 P) Pages in category "Galatian people" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
They eventually settled in the region that came to be named after them, Galatia. They were defeated by Antiochus I, and as a result, they were confined to barren highlands in the centre of Anatolia. [25] Celtic groups were still the pre-eminent political units in the northern Balkans from the 4th to the 1st century BC.
Galatia (/ ɡ ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə /) was the name of a province of the Roman Empire in Anatolia (modern central Turkey). It was established by the first emperor, Augustus (sole rule 30 BC – 14 AD), in 25 BC, covering most of formerly independent Celtic Galatia , with its capital at Ancyra .
3rd century AD Sol Invictus disk from Pessinus, then capital city of the Tolistobogii.. Tolistobogii (in other sources Tolistobogioi, Tolistobōgioi, Tolistoboioi, Tolistobioi, Toligistobogioi or Tolistoagioi) is the name used by the Roman historian, Livy, for one of the three ancient Gallic tribes of Galatia in central Asia Minor, together with the Trocmi and Tectosages.