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GORDIUM

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 248 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GORDIUM , an ancient city of
Phrygia
  situated on the Persian " Royal road " from
Pessinus
  to
Ancyra
 , and not far from the Sangarius. It lies opposite the
village
  Pebi, a little north of the point where the
Constantinople
 -
Angora
  railway crosses the Sangarius. It is not to be confused with Gordiou-kome, refounded as Juliopolis, a Bithynian town on a small tributary of the Sangarius, about 47 M. in an air-line N.W. of Gordium. According to the legend, Gordium was founded by Gordius, a Phrygian peasant who had been called to the throne by his countrymen in obedience to an oracle of Zeus commanding them to select the first person that rode up to the temple of the god in a wagon. The king afterwards dedicated his car to the god, and another
1 For this name see footnote to SHAPUR.
oracle declared that whoever succeeded in untying the strangely entwined knot of cornel bark which bound the yoke to the
pole
  should reign over all
Asia
 . Alexander the
Great
 , according to the story, cut the knot by a stroke of his sword. Gordium was captured and destroyed by the Gauls soon after 189 B.C. and disappeared from history. In imperial times only a small
village
  existed on the site. Excavations made in 1900 by two German scholars, G. and A. Koerte, revealed practically no remains later than the middle of the 6th century B.C. (when
Phrygia
  fell under Persian power).
See Jahrbuch des Instituts, Erganzungsheft v. (1904). (J. G. C. A.)


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