Gordium
Gordium Gordium was the capital of ancient Phrygia, modern ... city is also called Gordiyan in Turkey. Gordium is situated on the place where the ... kings of Phrygia built large tombs near Gordium. These wooden chambers were covered by artificial ... battle. There are traces of destruction at Gordium, but they may be older than ...
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Gordium   (translated from Dutch)
Gordium Gordium (huidigenaam Yassihöyük) is the old capital of ... Yassihöyük lies Turkije . According to the legend Gordium have been founded by Gordias in the ... city was burned by the Cimmeriërs. Later Gordium were rebuilt, but in the 2e centuries ...
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Phrygia
... their kingdom, with a capital eventually at Gordium. It is still not known whether the ... Gordian Knot." Gordias refounded a capital at Gordium in west central Anatolia, situated on the ... suicide of its last king, Midas, in Gordium when the city fell to the Cimmerians ... Herodotus. A series of digs have opened Gordium as one of Turkey's most revealing ... furniture, food offerings, (Archaeological Museum, Ankara). The Gordium site contains a considerable later building ...
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Gordian Knot
... of the former kings of Phrygia at Gordium in the 4th century BC when Alexander ... Persian Empire. In 333 BC, wintering at Gordium, Alexander attempted to untie the knot. When ... been a religious knot-cipher guarded by Gordium's priests and priestesses. Robert Graves suggested ...
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Legend
... pole of the sacral ox-cart at Gordium in the winter of 333 BC, severed ... Gordian Knot is the founding myth of Gordium itself, justifying the authenticity of its line ...
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Kerkenes
... site that supports his theory. See also Gordium External links Kerkenes Project Official Site Turkey ...
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Ptolemy (son of Seleucus)
... the following spring he rejoined Alexander at Gordium, with the troops under his command, accompanied ...
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Coenus
... with the Macedonians, and joined Alexander at Gordium. He commanded a portion of Alexander's ...
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Gordian
... Things related to the ancient city of Gordium, particularly: Gordian Knot This is a disambiguation ...
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Category:Ancient Near East
... Edessa, Mesopotamia Euromus F Fertile Crescent G Gordium H Heraclea Pontica History of the Levant ...
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