At the time, the most powerful kingdom in that region was the kingdom of Phrygia... They defeated them so crushingly that the King of Phrygia, Midas, committed suicide ... The Cimmerians then went on to sack Gordion, the capital of Phrygia.
It was 333 BC when the King of Macedon entered Phrygia and went to the Temple of Zeus... Phrygia was a kingdom situated in today’s Turkey ... Gordius was a poor farmer who one day entered Phrygia with his wife on his ox cart.