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	Phrygia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phrygians were mentioned by Homer as settled on the banks of the River Sangarius (now Sakarya, the second largest river in modern Turkey), which flows north and west to empty into the Black Sea.
		Although the Phrygians adopted the alphabet originated by the Phoenicians, and several dozen inscriptions in the Phrygian language have been found, they remain untranslated, and so much of what is thought to be known of Phrygia is second-hand information from Greek sources.
		Ascanius and Phorcys hailed from Phrygian Ascania, by the Ascanian lake (Ascanius).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phrygia (2114 words)

	Phrygia - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		According to unvarying Greek tradition the Phrygians were most closely akin to certain tribes of Macedonia and Thrace; and their near relationship to the Hellenic stock is proved by all that is known of their language and art, and is accepted by almost every modern authority.
		It is probable that the tradition of battles between the Phrygians and the Amazons on the banks of the Sangarius preserves the memory of a struggle between the two races and the victory of the Phryges.
		Sabazius was identified with Adonis or Attis (Atys), Cybele with the Syrian goddess; and many of the coarsest rites of the Phrygian worship, the mutilation of the priests, the prostitution at the shrine, 5 came from the countries of the south-east.
	4.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PH/PHRYGIA.htm (5155 words)

	Phrygian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Phrygian language was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, a people who probably migrated from Thrace to Asia Minor in the Bronze Age, possibly during the Sea Peoples migrations of ca 1200 BC.
		Phrygian is attested by two corpora, one from around 800 BC and later (Paleo-Phrygian), and then after a period of several centuries from around the beginning of the Common Era (Neo-Phrygian).
		A sizable body of Phrygian words are theoretically known; however, the meaning and etymologies and even correct forms of many Phrygian words (mostly extracted from inscriptions) are still being debated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phrygian_language (781 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Burushaski language
		In ergative-absolutive languages, the absolutive is the grammatical case used to mark both the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb.
		An ergative-absolutive language (or simply ergative) is one that treats the agent of transitive verbs distinctly from the subject of intransitive verbs and the object of transitive verbs.
		The sumerian language of ancient sumer was spoken in southern mesopotamia from at least the 4th millennium bc....
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Burushaski-language (2613 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Phrygia
		The Phrygian language was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, a people who probably migrated from Thrace to Asia Minor in the Bronze Age.
		Mithras and the Bull: fresco from the mithraeum at Marino, Italy, (3rd century) Mithras was the central savior god of Mithraism, a syncretic Hellenistic mystery religion of male initiates that developed in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC and was practiced in the Roman Empire from...
		The invasion of Anatolia in the late 8th century BC to early 7th century BC by the Cimmerians was to prove fatal to independent Phrygia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Phrygia (5812 words)

	Phrygia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Phrygians were mentioned by Homer as settled on the banks of River Sangarius (now Sakarya the second largest in modern Turkey) which flows north and to empty into the Black Sea.
		Although the Phrygians adopted the alphabet originated by the Phoenicians and several inscriptions in the Phrygian language have been they remain untranslated and so much of is thought to be known of Phrygia second-hand information from Greek sources.
		Phrygians stereotyped among later Greeks and the Romans passive and dull.
	www.freeglossary.com /Phrygia (1525 words)

	Phrygia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Phrygians were mentioned by Homer as settled on the banks of the River Sangarius, (now Sakarya, the second largest river in modernTurkey), which flows north and west to empty into the Black Sea.
		Although the Phrygiansadopted the alphabet originated by the Phoenicians, and several dozen inscriptions in the Phrygian language have been found, they remain untranslated, andso much of what is thought to be known of Phrygia is second-hand information from Greek sources.
		It is still not known whether the Phrygians were actively involved in the collapse of the Hittite capital Hattusa, or whether they simply moved into the vacuum that followed the collapse ofHittite hegemony.
	www.therfcc.org /phrygia-40706.html (1450 words)

	Thracian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Thracian language was the Indo-European language spoken in ancient times by the Thracians in South-Eastern Europe.
		A second inscription was found in 1965 near the village of Kjolmen, Preslav district, dating to the 6th century BC.
		Most of the Thracians were eventually Hellenized (in the province of Thrace) or Romanized (in Moesia, Dacia, etc.), with the last remnants surviving in remote areas until the 5th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thracian_language (942 words)

	Phrygia and the Phrygians - All About Turkey
		Their independent Phrygian kingdom of the 8th and 7th c BC maintained close contacts with the Aryans in the east and the Greeks in the west.
		Phrygians built the largest mound (tumulus) in Gordion known as the Tumulus of Midas; it is 53 meters high and 300 meters wide.
		The Arslantas rock monument near Afyon and the ruins of Midas near Eskisehir are among the most important Phrygian monuments in Anatolia, and are where the Phrygians worshipped their major deity Cybele and her lover Attis.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /frig.htm (1007 words)

	Languages - Cunnan
		It evolved from the ancient Finnish languages which have existed from the stone age in the forests of Finland and northern Europe.
		The Finno-Ugric languages are all Agglutinative languages, which mean that they use prefixes and suffixes to indicate the grammatical role of the words.
		The language in use on the isle of Lemnos in the Aegean sea.
	cunnan.sca.org.au /wiki/Language (804 words)

	Phrygian language
		The study of the language is made especially difficult by the fact that there is not much to research: we can only judge by several tablets and inscriptions, glosses containing mostly personal and place names.
		The phonetic system of the New Phrygian period (from the 2nd to the 3rd century) is close to that of Greek.
		Phrygian is considered a "satem" language though this question is still under discussion.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/balk/phrygian.html (300 words)

	Indo-European languages - Slider
		Anatolian languages — earliest attested branch, from the 18th century BC; extinct, most notable was the language of the Hittites.
		Tocharian languages — extinct tongues of the Tocharians, extant in two dialects, attested from roughly the 6th century.
		Phrygian language — extinct language of ancient Phrygia, fragmentary.
	enc.slider.com /Enc/Indo-European_languages (883 words)

	The First Christian Century
		This opinion that the use of the language kept the racial feeling strong was confirmed last year by the discovery of two Phrygian inscriptions in the hill which covers the remains of the Seljuk Sultans' palace in the centre of Iconium.
		Hence Paul found in Iconium the Phrygian city, just as he found in Antioch the Roman colonia, a considerable Greek-speaking population; and it was among this section of the inhabitants that he chiefly gained his converts.
		While the Iconians clung to their Phrygian character as opposed to the Lycaonian, there is no proof and no likelihood that the citizens styled themselves "Phryges".
	www.webminister.com /ramsay/rfc025.shtml (899 words)

	Phrygian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		By the 6th century AD it was extinct, but we can reconstruct some words with the help of some inscriptions written with a script similar to the Greek.
		It is believed that it was close to Thracian and maybe Armenian, but probably closest to Greek, a language with which it was for some time in contact.
		Recently it was shown that the Phrygian language has very strong affinities with the Burushaski language spoken in the Karakorum region.
	en.mcfly.org /Phrygian_language (177 words)

	Phrygia
		The Phrygians benefited from the Hittite culture, and adopted many of their social structures and customs.
		Phrygian language belonged to the Indo-European family, which survived no longer than until the 6th century CE.
		In her Phrygian version she is in a human shape and wears a long belted dress, a high cylindrical headdress and a veil covering the whole body.
	www.i-cias.com /e.o/phrygia.htm (590 words)

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		the mThe Phrygians arrived in Anatolia in 1200 B.C., amongigrating tribes known as the "people of the Aegean Sea." At first they lived in Central Anatolia, building settlements over the ashes of cities of the Hittites such as Hattushash, Alacahöyük, Pazarli and Alisar.
		The Aslantas rock monument near Afyon and the ruins of Midas, near Eskisehir are among the most important monuments of the Phrygian period in Anatolia, and are where the Phrygians worshipped their major deity Cybele and her lover Attis.
		The Phrygian language belonged to the Indo-European group of languages and as it has not been deciphered yet, our knowledge of the Phrygians is still quite limited.
	www.exploreturkey.com /exptur.phtml?id=340 (677 words)

	Phrygian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Phrygian language was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, people that migrated from Thrace to Asia Minor around 1200 BC.
		By the 6th century AD it was extinct, but we can reconstruct some wordswith the help of some inscriptions written with a script similar to the Greek.
		It is believed that it was close to Thracian and Armenian, while also having some characteristics with Greek, a language that was for some time in contact.
	www.therfcc.org /phrygian-language-41246.html (91 words)

	Philologos \| The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia \| Chapter 10
		Although the majority, probably, of the people of Phrygia spoke the Phrygian language and a large number of them were entirely ignorant of Greek in the first century, yet there is no evidence and no probability that Christianity ever addressed itself to them in Phrygian.
		The native languages had died out in its western parts, and been replaced by Greek; Lydian had ceased to be spoken or known in Lydia, when Strabo wrote about AD 20; Carian was then probably unknown in the western parts of Caria, though the central and eastern districts were not so far advanced.
		Polemon the Sophist of the time of Hadrian and Pius was called "the Phrygian," because he was born of a Laodicean family; and when Ionians were using such a nickname, Phrygians naturally began to retort by assuming it as a mark of pride.
	www.philologos.org /__eb-lttsc/chap10.htm (3362 words)

	Armenian language - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		ARMENIAN LANGUAGE [Armenian language] member of the Thraco-Phrygian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-European).
		This was the literary language until the 19th cent.
		The history of the Armenian people is reflected in the sources of the words borrowed by their language.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/ArmenL1an.asp (553 words)

	Passage from Phrygian language - www.ezboard.com
		Some even say Olympos is Phrygian but it is highly unlikely that the Greeks accepted a "foreign" name for their home of the Gods.
		Phrygian is not as well-known as some other languages.
		It is thought that within the IE language family Greek is closer to Phrygian-Armenian.
	p083.ezboard.com /fbalkansfrm53.showMessage?topicID=55.topic (721 words)

	The Church at Iconium
		At the neighboring city of Lystra (Acts 14:11), the natives used the “speech of Lycaonia.” Two inscriptions in the Phrygian language found at Iconium in 1910 prove that the Phrygian language was in use there for 2 centuries after Paul's visits, and afford confirmation of the interesting topographical detail in Acts (see Jour.
		In the apostolic period, Iconium was one of the chief cities in the southern part of the Roman province Galatia, and it probably belonged to the “Phrygian region” mentioned in Acts 16:6.
		The emperor Claudius conferred on it the title Claudiconium, which appears on coins of the city and on inscriptions, and was formerly taken as a proof that Claudius raised the city to the rank of a Roman colonia.
	www.astheoracles.org /index-236.htm (565 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		There is disagreement as to the original geographic location (the so-called "Urheimat" or "original homeland"), where it originated from, with Armenia, the area to the north or west of the Black Sea, or Anatolia itself prime examples of proposed candidates.
		Phrygian language (extinct language of ancient Phrygia, fragmentary)
		The Maltese language and Turkish are two examples of languages spoken in Europe which have definite non-European origins.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Indo-European_language_family (588 words)

	Phrygia? - HyeForum
		800 B.C. - The Armenians seperate from the Phrygians
		I know that this is touchy issue, but I believe that many of the cultural similarities that exist between Balkan people and Armenians stem exactly from their common birthplace.
		Our genotype is a result of this admixture between Armens, Hyksos, and the rest of Armenian tribes rather than a result of foreign invasions and interbreeding with allies which unfortunately were common place, but not to the extend to radically change the general genotype.
	www.hyeforum.com /index.php?showtopic=8860 (2119 words)

	GTP
		The Phrygians are mentioned by Homer as settled on the banks of the Sangarius, where later writers tell us of the powerful Phrygian kingdom of Gordius and Midas.
		After the Persian conquest, however, the Phrygians seem to have lost all intellectual activity, and they became proverbial among the Greeks and Romans for submissiveness and stupidity.
		But scanty remains of the Phrygian language survive, chiefly in the shape of brief inscriptions.
	www.gtp.gr /LocInfo.asp?infoid=49&code=ETRC00F&PrimeCode=ETRC00F&Level=5&PrimeLevel=5&IncludeWide=1&LocId=15489 (400 words)

	Phrygia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		http://www.goddess.org/vortices/notes/cybele.html The Phrygians also venerated Sabazios, the sky and father god depicted on horseback.
		Herodotos claims that Phrygians were the most ancient nation.
		Homer recounts briefly that the Trojan king Priam had in his youth come to aid the Phrygians when the Amazons attacked them.(''Iliad'' 3.189).
	phrygia.area51.ipupdater.com (1626 words)

	The First Christian Century
		There could be no doubt that "Mygdonian" was a mere poetic epithet equivalent to "Phrygian"; but it was not absolutely certain that the epithet was applied to Antioch; 5 and, if it were so applied, it might only indicate that the city had been originally Phrygian.
		an ancient Phrygian king, and Mygdonia was either a district of Phrygia, 8 or Phrygia as a whole.
		Antioch was, strictly speaking, a Phrygian city towards Pisidia, as Strabo defines it.
	www.webminister.com /ramsay/rfc024.shtml (1458 words)

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