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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.Phrygia - an ancient country in western and central Asia MinorPhrygia - 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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84 BT1435 Based upon the incoherent visions of a former priest of Apollo (or so his detractors claimed) and his adherents, Montanism first confused the Christian community of Phyrgia in what is now modern Turkey.
The papers concern current excavation and study at iron age sites from Urartu as far west as Phyrgia, extending the scope of the volume to include links with Thrace and the Caucasus.
 
 
 
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