Roman Empire - Fall of Tyana

Time: 272

Place: Tyana (Present-Day Kemerhisar, Niğde Province, Turkey)

Details: Asia Minor was recovered easily; every city but Byzantium and Tyana surrendered to him with little resistance. The fall of Tyana lent itself to a legend: Aurelian to that point had destroyed every city that resisted him, but he spared Tyana after having a vision of the great 1st-century philosopher Apollonius of Tyana, whom he respected greatly, in a dream.

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