Phrygia, an ancient kingdom and region in west-central Asia Minor. The Phrygians were an Indo-European people who came into Asia Minor from the Balkans about 1200 B.C., perhaps among the conquerors of the Hittites. The Phrygians founded a kingdom about the eighth century B.C.—according to tradition, under Gordius, who tied the Gordian Knot and whose son was the legendary Midas. Worship of Cybele, mother goddess of the Phrygians, spread to Greece and, later, to Rome. Phrygia was ravaged by invaders about 695 B.C. and was conquered by neighboring Lydia about 600. Gordium, the royal city, is an archeological site.