The Gallic horde continues to plague western…

The Gallic horde continues to plague western Anatolia until checked in 275 by Antiochus at the so-called Elephant Battle.

At this point, the Celts, called Galatae (Galatians) by third-century writers, settle, courtesy of Nicomedes of Bithynia and Mithridates of Pontus, in an area of northern Phrygia stretching from southwest to northeast through the central Anatolian plateau (the region will become known as Galatia (from Galli, the Latin word for Celts), there to serve as a buffer against the Seleucids.

Angora, one of their hillforts, is today Ankara, the Turkish capital.