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Phrygia

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Phryg·i·a  (frj-)
An ancient region of central Asia Minor in modern-day central Turkey. It was settled c. 1200 b.c. and flourished from the eighth to the sixth century, after which it came under the influence of Lydia, Persia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium.
Phrygia [ˈfrɪdʒɪə]
n
(Placename) an ancient country of W central Asia Minor
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Noun1.PhrygiaPhrygia - an ancient country in western and central Asia Minor
Colossae - an ancient city in south western Phrygia in Asia Minor; site of an early Christian Church
Anatolia, Asia Minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey


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When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them, but even they were not so many as the Achaeans.
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Otreus of famous name is my father, if so be you have heard of him, and he reigns over all Phrygia rich in fortresses.
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Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotiaeum, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the distinction of being the birthplace of Aesop.
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