id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7510 Phrygia - Wikipedia .html text/html 6488 813 67 Over this time Phrygians became christian and Greek-speaking, assimilating into the Byzantine state; after the Turkish conquest of Byzantine Anatolia in the late Middle Ages, the name "Phrygia" passed out of usage as a territorial designation. Some scholars accept as factual the Iliad's account that the Phrygians were established on the Sakarya River before the Trojan War, and thus must have been there during the later stages of the Hittite Empire, and probably earlier, and consequently dismiss proposals of recent immigration to Phrygia. These scholars seek instead to trace the Phrygians' origins among the many nations of western Anatolia who were subject to the Hittites.[12] This interpretation also gets support from Greek legends about the founding of Phrygia's main city Gordium by Gordias and of Ancyra by Midas,[13] which suggest that Gordium and Ancyra were believed to date from the distant past before the Trojan War. No one has conclusively identified which of the many subjects of the Hittites might have represented early Phrygians. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7510.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7510.txt