Phrygia

Phrygia was a country originally extending over the western shores of Asia Minor, but afterwards confined to the western uplands, where are the sources of the Hermus, Mæander, and Sangarius. It was made up of barren hills where sheep famous for their wool grazed, and fertile valleys where the vine was cultivated. Marble was quarried in the hills, and gold was found. Several great trade roads from Ephesus crossed the country, among whose towns the names of Colosse and Laodicea are familiar. The Phrygians were an Armenian people, with a mystic orgiastic religion, and were successively conquered by Assyrians, Lydians, and Persians, falling under Rome in 43 B.C.

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