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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 248 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GORDIUM , an See also:

ancient See also:city of See also:Phrygia situated on the See also:Persian " Royal road " from See also:Pessinus to See also:Ancyra, and not far from the Sangarius. It lies opposite the See also:village Pebi, a little See also:north of the point where the See also:Constantinople-See also:Angora railway crosses the Sangarius. It is not to be confused with Gordiou-kome, refounded as Juliopolis, a Bithynian See also:town on a small tributary of the Sangarius, about 47 M. in an See also:air-See also:line N.W. of Gordium. According to the See also:legend, Gordium was founded by Gordius, a Phrygian See also:peasant who had been called to the See also:throne by his countrymen in obedience to an See also:oracle of See also:Zeus commanding them to select the first See also:person that rode up to the See also:temple of the See also:god in a See also:wagon. The See also:king afterwards dedicated his See also:car to the god, and another 1 For this name see footnote to See also:SHAPUR. oracle declared that whoever succeeded in untying the strangely entwined See also:knot of cornel bark which See also:bound the yoke to the See also:pole should reign over all See also:Asia. See also:Alexander the See also:Great, according to the See also:story, cut the knot by a stroke of his See also:sword. Gordium was captured and destroyed by the Gauls soon after 189 B.C. and disappeared from See also:history. In imperial times only a small village existed on the site. Excavations made in 1900 by two See also:German scholars, G. and A. Koerte, revealed practically no remains later than the See also:middle of the 6th See also:century B.C. (when Phrygia See also:fell under Persian See also:power).

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des Instituts, Erganzungsheft v. (1904). (J. G. C.

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