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Sabatra

Yağlibayat

Sabatra lay in the dry uplands of Lycaonia, at modern Yağlibayat in Turkey, not far from Konya. Its name perhaps goes back to a Hittite word meaning "without water", and the Greek geographer Strabo would have agreed: he describes wells of extraordinary depth, where water was actually sold, though sheep flourished all around. On the Tabula the town ends a road running diagonally across Lycaonia. It struck its own coins from Trajan to Philip, was a bishopric from 381, and excavations are now uncovering a Roman theatre, while Hellenistic marble statues from the site rest in the Konya museum.

Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). More on Wikipedia.

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