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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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