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- The Phrygians (Greek: Φρύγες, Phruges or Phryges) were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in antiquity.
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Indo-European topics. The Phrygians ( Greek: Φρύγες, Phruges or Phryges) were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in antiquity. Ancient Greek authors used "Phrygian" as an umbrella term to describe a vast ethno-cultural complex located mainly in the central areas of Anatolia ...
Scholars figure that Assyrians called Phrygians "Mushki" because the Phrygians and Mushki, an eastern Anatolian people, were at that time campaigning in a joint army. This Midas is thought to have reigned Phrygia at the peak of its power from about 720 BC to about 695 BC (according to Eusebius) or 676 BC (according to Julius Africanus).
Mar 25, 2024 · Phrygia, ancient district in west-central Anatolia, named after a people whom the Greeks called Phryges and who dominated Asia Minor between the Hittite collapse (12th century bc) and the Lydian ascendancy (7th century bc). The Phrygians, perhaps of Thracian origin, settled in northwestern Anatolia.
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Sep 5, 2019 · Phrygia was the name of an ancient Anatolian kingdom (12th-7th century BCE) and, following its demise, the term was then applied to the general geographical area it once covered in the western plateau of Asia Minor. With its capital at Gordium and a culture which curiously mixed Anatolian, Greek, and Near Eastern elements, one of the kingdom's ...
- Mark Cartwright
The Assyrians possibly knew these Phrygians as the Mušku or Mushki, a name that first appeared in Assyrian records in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BC when it was the Mušku who were penetrating into the Upper Tigris. The link between Phrygians and Mušku has been as hotly debated in recent years as the claim of Phrygians originating in ...
Q149386. Phrygians: an ancient nation in western Turkey. Their capital was Gordium. Origin. Phrygian antefix. Compared to several other nations in Anatolia, the Phrygians were newcomers.
May 17, 2018 · PHRYGIA , district in central Asia Minor, part of the Roman province of Asia after the death of Attalus iii (133 b.c.e.), the last king of *Pergamum. A Jewish community was established in Phrygia no later than the end of the third century b.c.e.
