Phrygia

a country originally extending over the western shores of Asia Minor, but afterwards confined to the western uplands, where are the sources of the Hermus, Mæander, and Sangar i us; was made up of barren hills where sheep famous for their wool grazed, and fertile valleys where the vine was cultivated; marble was quarried in the hills, and gold was found; several great trade roads from Ephesus cro ed the country, among whose towns the names of Colo e and Laodicea are familiar; the Phrygians were an Armenian people, with a mystic orgiastic religion, and were succe ively conquered by A yrians, Lydians, and Persians, falling under Rome in 43 B.C.