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Definition of Phrygia

1. Noun. An ancient country in western and central Asia Minor.

Definition of Phrygia

1. Proper noun. (historical) Ancient kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. Capital: Gordium. ¹

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Literary usage of Phrygia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the 8th and probably in the 9th century BC communication with phrygia seems to have ... About the end of the 8th century Midas king of phrygia married ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The period from 675 to 585 must therefore be considered as one of great disturbance and probably of complete paralysis in phrygia. After 585 the country was ..."

3. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"1 In phrygia once were gallant armies known In ancient time, ... But to the later Greeks and the Romans phrygia was politically unimportant, ..."

4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1888)
"A few facts are attested by biblical writers, but beyond this practically nothing is known about the process by which the large countries of phrygia, ..."

5. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"In point of fact, however, only phrygia can be taken to mean a portion of Asia, and lha.t only in one case — viz., when 'Asia' is understood as meaning the ..."

6. A System of Ancient and Mediaeval Geography for the Use of Schools and Colleges by Charles Anthon (1871)
"I. THE boundaries of phrygia differed at various times, Under the Persian ... The ancient writers speak of the Great and Lesser phrygia ; by the former is ..."

7. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1898)
"Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1897, pp. xvi, 440. Boyal 8ro, linen. The second title of this handsome volume is An Essay of the Local History of phrygia ..."

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