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Pessinous, the sacred city of the Anatolian Mother Goddess Kybele, is situated centrally on the Anatolian plateau, about 150 km southwest of the capital Ankara. A major part of the ancient city is situated under the modern village of Ballihisar. According to tradition, the site dates back to the Phrygian era as a cult site and settlement. The famous King Midas himself is suppossed to have founded Pessinous and erected the first sanctuary of Kybele in the 8th century BC. The cult of the Mother Goddess spread across the Greek world and then from Pessinous throughout the Roman Empire, and conquered the classical world.The excavations that have been carried out at the site since 1967 by the Belgian Archaeological teams of Gent University have unearthed the eart of ancient Pessinous. «
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