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AKMONIA (Ancient city) FRYGIA
Acmonia (Akmonia: Eth. Akmonieus, Akmonios, Acmonensis), a city of Phrygia, mentioned
by Cicero (Pro Flacc. 15.) It was on the road from Dorylaeum to Philadelphia,
36 Roman miles SW. of Cotyaeum; and under the Romans belonged to the Conventus
Juridicus of Apamea. The site has been fixed at Ahatkoi; but it still seems doubtful.
(Hamilton, Researches, &c. vol. i. p. 115.)
EFKARPIA (Ancient city) FRYGIA
Eucarpia (Eukarpia: Eth. Eukarpeus, Eucarpenus), a town in Phrygia,
not far from the sources of the Maeander, on the road from Dorylaeum to Apameia
Cibotus; it was situated in a very fertile district, to which it is said to have
been indebted for its name. The vine especially grew there very luxuriously. (Steph.
B. s. v.; Strab. xii. p. 576.) Under the Roman dominion Eucarpia belonged to the
conventus of Synnada, to the southwest of which city it was situated. (Plin. v.
29; comp. Ptol. v. 2. § 24; Hierocl. p. 666; Geogr. Rav.) Both Arundell (Discov.
in As. Min. i. p. 136) and Kiepert place Eucarpia at no great distance from Segiclar,
but its exact site is unknown.
THEMISONION (Ancient city) FRYGIA
Themisonium (Themisonion: Eth. Themisonios), a town of Phrygia, near
the borders of Pisidia, whence in later times it was regarded as a town of Pisidia.
(Strab. xii. p. 576; Paus. x. 32; Ptol. v. 2. § 26; Steph. B. s. v.; Plin. v.
29; Hierocl. p. 674; Geogr. Rav. i. 18.) Pausanias relates that the Themisonians
showed a cave, about 30 stadia from their town, in which, on the advice of Heracles,
Apollo, and Hermes, they had concealed their wives and children during an invasion
of the Celts, and in which afterwards they set up statues of these divinities.
According to the Peuting. Table, Themisonium was 34 miles from Laodiceia. Arundell
(Discoveries, ii. p. 136), guided by a coin of the place, fixes its site on the
river Azanes, and believes the ruins at Kai Hissar to be those of Themisonium;
but Kiepert (in Franz's Funf Inschriften, p. 29) thinks that the ruins of Kisel
Hisser, which Arundell takes to mark the site of Cibyra, are those of Themisonium.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
FRYGIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
(Phrugia). A country of Asia Minor, which was of different extent
at different periods. Under the Roman Empire Phrygia was bounded on the west by
Mysia, Lydia, and Caria; on the south by Lycia and Pisidia; on the east by Lycaonia
(which is often reckoned as a part of Phrygia) and Galatia (which formerly belonged
to Phrygia), and on the north by Bithynia. The Phrygians are mentioned by Homer
as settled on the banks of the Sangarius, where later writers tell us of the powerful
Phrygian kingdom of Gordius and Midas. It would seem that they were a branch of
the great Thracian family, originally settled in the northwest of Asia Minor as
far as the shores of the Hellespont and Propontis, and that the successive migrations
of other Thracian peoples, as the Thyni, Bithyni, Mysians, and Teucrians, drove
them farther inland. They were not, however, entirely displaced by the Mysians
and Teucrians from the country between the shores of the Hellespont and Propontis
and Mounts Ida and Olympus, where they continued side by side with the Greek colonies,
and where their name was preserved in that of the district under all subsequent
changes--namely, Phrygia Minor or Phrygia Hellespontus. The kingdom of Phrygia
was conquered by Croesus, and formed part of the Persian, Macedonian, and Syro-Grecian
Empires; but, under the last, the northeastern part, adjacent to Paphlagonia and
the Halys, was conquered by the Gauls, and formed the western part of Galatia;
and under the Romans was included in the province of Asia. In connection with
the early intellectual culture of Greece, Phrygia is highly important. The earliest
Greek music, especially that of the flute, was borrowed in part, through the Asiatic
colonies, from Phrygia. With this country also were closely associated the orgies
of Dionysus and of Cybele, the Mother of the Gods, the Phrygia Mater of the Roman
poets. After the Persian conquest, however, the Phrygians seem to have lost all
intellectual activity, and they became proverbial among the Greeks and Romans
for submissiveness and stupidity. The Roman poets constantly use the epithet Phrygian
as equivalent to Trojan.
But scanty remains of the Phrygian language survive, chiefly
in the shape of brief inscriptions. It was probably an Indo-European dialect closely
related to the Armenian, and some such relation is implied in the notices of Herodotus
and Strabo.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
TRAJANOPOLIS (Ancient city) FRYGIA
A town in Mysia on the borders of Phrygia, refounded by Trajan in A.D. 117.
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