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Gordium
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Gordium

Ancient city in Phrygia, in Asia Minor. It was here that, according to legend, Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, cut the Gordian knot with his sword, and so fulfilled the prophecy that the knot could be undone only by the future conqueror of Asia.



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Sams, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the project director for the Gordion archeological site in central Turkey, was telling the attendees about the vessels from which mourners ate an elaborate feast during King Midas' funeral 2,700 years ago.
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A cemetery is an unlikely place for the living to set up homes, but that is what happened near the ancient Turkish city of Gordion, capital of the Phrygian kingdom in the 8th century B.
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