ancient Phrygia
In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , ''Phrygía'') was a kingdom in the west-central part of Ancient regions of Anatolia#Classical Age regions (circa 200 BC), Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River.
Stories of ...
, inhabited during
Hellenistic
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,
Roman
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, and
Byzantine
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times. According to
Pliny the Elder
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, it belonged to the ''
conventus
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'' of Synnada. It became the seat of a bishop in the ecclesiastical province of
Phrygia Pacatiana
In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , ''Phrygía'') was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River.
Stories of the heroic age of Greek mythology tell of several legendary Ph ...
; no longer a residential bishopric, it remains a
titular see
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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