Phrygian Valley is earned to tourism

Phrygian Valley which is one of the most important historical settlements in Anatolia, has been handled by the three provinces governors.

Afyonkarahisar, Eskişehir and Kütahya governors, lieutenant governors, Culture and Tourism Director of the Provincial General Assembly with the participation of presidents and other officials on Phrygian Valley second meeting took place in meeting rooms Afyonkarahisar Governorship.

In order for the Phrygian Valley which majority within the borders of Afyonkarahisar and one of the most important settlements in Anatolia to take place in the tourism area, three cities (Afyonkarahisar, Eskişehir and Kütahya) governors discussion of this topic is significant.

At the meeting which was started by Afyonkarahisar Governor Haluk İmga, what can be done for the Phrygian Valley was discussed. Governor İmga said that, “Scythians and Cimmeriansraids resulted in lost of political supremacy for Phrygia in Anatolia at 7th centuries BC, and Phrygia has seledted mountainous region that includes a plateau as a new residential areas.  As a cultural extension, extending to the Mediterranean and Aegean seas are.  Therefore, the region known as Nagorno Phrygia, and because of the hot water resources this area is named as Phrygia Salutaris and with the name and culture Phrygia has continued to live until  toady”

Phrygia

In antiquity, Phrygia (Greek: Φρυγία) was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. The Phrygians (Phruges or Phryges) initially lived in the Southern Balkans; according to Herodotus, under the name of Bryges(/Briges), changing it to Phruges after their final migration to Anatolia, via the Hellespont.

During the floruit of the city-state of Troy, a part of the Bryges emigrated to Anatolia as Trojan allies or under the protection of Troy.[citation needed] The Trojan language did not survive; consequently, its exact relationship to the Phrygian language and the affinity of Phrygian society to that of Troy remain open questions. Similarly, the date of migration and the relationship of the Phrygians to the Hittite empire are unknown. They are, however, often considered part of a “Thraco-Phrygian” group. A conventional date of c. 1200 BC often is used, at the very end of the empire. It is certain that Phrygia was constituted on Hittite land, and yet not at the very center of Hittite power in the big bend of the Halys River, where Ankara now is.

Subsequently the state of Phrygia arose in the 8th century BC with its capital at Gordium. During this period, the Phrygians extended eastward and encroached upon the kingdom of Urartu, the descendants of the Hurrians, a former rival of the Hittites.

Meanwhile the Phrygian kingdom was overwhelmed by Iranian Cimmerian invaders c. 690 BC, then briefly conquered by its neighbor Lydia, before it passed successively into the Persian Empire of Cyrus and the empire of Alexander and his successors, was taken by the Attalids of Pergamon, and eventually became part of the Roman Empire. The Phrygian language survived until about the 6th century AD, when it finally gave way to Greek.

The area called ‘Phyrgian Valley’ among the cities of Afyonkarahisar, Kütahya and Eskişehir is an area that even native poeple living in the city are uninformed about its location and geographical characteristics  despite its historical, cultural and natural importance for tourism.