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Phrygian can refer to:

  • Anything relating to the region of Phrygia
  • Anything relating to the Phrygians, an ethnic group
  • Phrygian language, their language
  • Phrygian cap, once characteristic of the region
  • Phrygian helmet, used historically in Thracian, Dacian, Classical and Hellenistic Greek armies, and later among Romans
  • Phrygian mode in music
  • A follower of Montanism, an early Christian movement in Phrygia

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Phrygians

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The Phrygians (Greek: Φρύγες, Phruges or Phryges) were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey)...

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Phrygian cap

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The Phrygian cap (/ˈfrɪdʒ(iː)ən/ FRIJ-(ee)-ən) or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples...

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Phrygian mode

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The Phrygian mode (pronounced /ˈfrɪdʒiən/) can refer to three different musical modes: the ancient Greek tonos or harmonia, sometimes called Phrygian, formed...

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Phrygian

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Phrygian can refer to: Anything relating to the region of Phrygia Anything relating to the Phrygians, an ethnic group Phrygian language, their language...

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Phrygia

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In classical antiquity, Phrygia (/ˈfrɪdʒiə/ FRIJ-ee-ə; Phrygian: 𐊩𐌏𐌛𐊅𐊄𐌌, romanized: Gordum; Ancient Greek: Φρυγία, Phrygía) was a kingdom in the...

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Phrygian language

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The Phrygian language (/ˈfrɪdʒiən/) was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, spoken in Anatolia (modern Turkey), during classical antiquity (c...

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Phrygian dominant scale

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music, the Phrygian dominant scale is the fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale, the fifth being the dominant. Also called the altered Phrygian scale, dominant...

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Phrygian helmet

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The Phrygian helmet, also known as the Thracian helmet, was a type of helmet that originated in ancient Greece and was widely used in Thrace, Dacia, Magna...

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Phrygian alphabet

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The Phrygian alphabet is the script used in the earliest Phrygian texts. It dates back to the 8th century BCE and was used until the fourth century BCE...

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Gordian Knot

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Familiar as his garter — Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1 Scene 1. 45–47 The Phrygians were without a king, but an oracle at Telmissus (the ancient capital of...

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Midas

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whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house. His father was Gordias, and his mother was Cybele. The most...

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Cybele

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Cybele (/ˈsɪbəliː/ SIB-ə-lee; Phrygian: Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya "Kubileya/Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian Kuvava; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybele...

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Phrygian Gates

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Phrygian Gates is a piano piece written by minimalist composer John Adams in 1977–1978. The piece, together with its smaller companion China Gates, written...

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Greek language

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exclusive between them. Scholars have proposed a Graeco-Phrygian subgroup out of which Greek and Phrygian originated. Among living languages, some Indo-Europeanists...

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The Phryges

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and Paralympic Games. They are two anthropomorphic Phrygian caps, a symbol of France. The Phrygian cap, a soft, generally red hat, was worn by freed slaves...

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Bryges

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have been related to the Phrygians, who during classical antiquity lived in western Anatolia. Both names, Bryges and Phrygians, are assumed to be variants...

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Phrygian Sibyl

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extended complement of sibyls of the Gothic and Renaissance imagination, the Phrygian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over an Apollonian oracle at Phrygia...

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Phrygian slave

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Various ancient figures are referred to as Phrygian slaves, or even the Phrygian slave: Aesop, 6th century BCE, the putative author of Aesop's fables...

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Thracian language

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textbooks often grouped it also with Illyrian or Phrygian. The belief that Thracian was close to Phrygian is no longer popular and has mostly been discarded...

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Classification of Thracian

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extension of identifying Phrygians with Proto-Armenians, a Thraco-Phrygian branch of Indo-European was postulated with Thracian, Phrygian and Armenian and constituent...

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Cadence

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for continuation. Several types of half cadences are described below. A Phrygian half cadence is a half cadence iv6–V in minor, so named because the semitonal...

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Gordion

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Gordion (Phrygian: Gordum; Greek: Γόρδιον, romanized: Górdion; Turkish: Gordion or Gordiyon; Latin: Gordium) was the capital city of ancient Phrygia. It...

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Phrygian Way

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The Phrygian Way (Turkish: Frig Yolu) is a marked long-distance hiking and bicycle trail in western Turkey, in part of the ancient Phrygia. Phrygia was...

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Galli

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A gallus (pl. galli) was a eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele (Magna Mater in Rome) and her consort Attis, whose worship was incorporated into...

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