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Gordion (Phrygian: Gordum; Greek: Γόρδιον, romanized: Górdion; Turkish: Gordion or Gordiyon; Latin: Gordium) was the capital city of ancient Phrygia. It was located at the site of modern Yassıhüyük , about 70–80 km (43–50 mi) southwest of Ankara (capital of Turkey), in the immediate vicinity of Polatlı district.
Gordion is an outstanding archaeological site for understanding the Phrygian civilisation and its achievements. The buildings of its Early Phrygian citadel, and the burial mounds of the city’s rulers, constitute the exceptional exemplars of monumental architecture in the Iron Age Near East.
Mar 20, 2024 · Its name is Gordion, the ancient capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Phrygia, and it's at least 4,500 years old. Located on a parched, windswept plain about 90km south-west of Ankara, Gordion...
Mar 30, 2022 · The Gordion Site. Gordion, once the great capital of the Phrygian dynasty, lies in the modern village of Yassihöyük, about 100 kilometers southwest of Ankara. Although famously connected to the story of the Gordion Knot, which Alexander the Great sliced through instead of untying, Gordion's history stretches much further back.
Gordion is one of the most complex and extensive archaeological sites known in Anatolia, with settlement and funerary remains extending over 2 km (1.24 miles) and covering more than 400 hectares (988 acres).
Situated about 100 km west of Ankara in the rolling steppe land of Anatolia’s central plateau, Gordion lies within the capital city’s own administrative province, and in the sub-district of Polatlı, the large and important town 18 km to the southeast of the site.
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The site of Gordion was “discovered” in November, 1893, when the German Classicist Alfred Körte visited a location on the Sangarios (modern Sakarya) river where engineers working on the Berlin–Baghdad Railroad had come across the remains of an ancient settlement.
