A place.
*mida/eion: xwri/on.
In fact a city. Briefly mentioned by
Strabo 12.8.12 and
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. (who cites
Hellanicus), it lay on the Tembrios (Tembris, Thymbris, present-day Porzuk), the tributary that runs eastward into the Sangarios at
Gordion (L. Zgusta,
Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Heidelberg 1984) 382). It is to be distinguished from the archaeological site near the present-day village Yazilikaya, baptized 'Midas City' by William Ramsay in 1888 because of its important Midas Monument. For the geography of the Phrygian highlands south of the Tembrios and bibliography see
mu 1109 'Miros'.
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