The state of Phrygia had arisen from…
765 BCE to 622 BCE
The state of Phrygia had arisen from tribal and village beginnings in the eighth century BCE with its capital at Gordium, where the ancient road between Lydia and Assyria/Babylonia crosses the Sangarius River in west central Anatolia.
During this period, the Phrygians had extended eastward and encroached upon the kingdom of Urartu, the descendants of the Hurrians, a former rival of the Hittites.
The Phrygian Kingdom is meanwhile overwhelmed by Cimmerian invaders around 690 BCE, then briefly conquered by its neighbor Lydia.
Minor Phrygian kingdoms continue to exist after the end of the Phrygian empire, and the Phrygian art and culture continue to flourish.
Cimmerian people remain in Anatolia but do not appear to have created a kingdom of their own.
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