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| | YOUR DICTIONARY - Tricolour and Phrygian Cap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | The religion of the Phrygians was an ecstatic nature worship, in which the Great Mother of the Gods, Rhea, or Cybele, and a male deity, Sabazius, played a prominent part. |
 | | In the 6th century BC Croesus, king of Lydia, conquered all that was left of Phrygia, which passed successively under the rule of Persia, Macedonia, Pergamum, and Rome. |
 | | The Phrygian cap was adopted by freed slaves in Roman times, and thus this cap became a symbol of liberty. |
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