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 | | They settled on the ruins of the Hittite cities, however, the first archaeological evidences of their civilization appeared only in the middle of the 8C BC when Gordion, the first capital of this very powerful but ephemeral kingdom, was founded. |
 | | During the Hellenistic Period Phrygia was taken by Antigone, Lysimachus, the Seleucids, the Galatians, Pergamum and it was finally annexed to the Roman Province of Asia. |
 | | Towards the middle of the 7C BC, Lydia was devastated by the Cimmerians but nevertheless succeeded to surmount this crisis: through the impetus given by its famest and legendary king Croesus (560-546), it became the main power in Asia Minor during the first half of the 6C BC. |
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