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The Phrygians were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia in antiquity.
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Phrygian soldiers. Detail from a reconstruction of a Phrygian building at Pazarlı, Çorum, Turkey, 7th–6th centuries BC.
Tomb at ‘Midas City’, near Eskişehir (sixth century BC)
The Phrygian goddess Cybele with her attributes
Phrygian cap
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The Phrygian cap, also known as Thracian cap and liberty cap, is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and Asia. The Phr
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…iconography, Paris, a Trojan, is represented as non-Greek by his Phrygian cap, which was also worn by Mithras and survived into modern imagery as the "liberty cap" of the American and French revolutionaries. Phrygians spoke the Phrygian language, a member of the Indo-European linguistic family. Modern consensus…
Dacian prisoner with Phrygian cap, Roman statue from the 2nd century
A Parthian (right) wearing a Phrygian cap, 203 AD
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Paris of Troy