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GANGRA (Ancient city) PAFLAGONIA
Gangra (Gangra: Kiengareh, Kangreh, or Changeri), a town of Paphlagonia,
to the south of Mount Olgasys, and at a distance of 35 miles from Pompeiopolis,
appears to have been a princely residence, for we know that Morzus or Morzeus,
and afterwards Deiotarus, the last king of Paphlagonia, resided there. (Strab.
xii. p. 564; comp. Liv. xxxviii. 26.) Strabo, notwithstanding this, describes
it as only a small town and a garrison. According to Alexander Polyhistor (ap.
Steph. B. s. v. Gangra), the town was built by a goatherd who had found one of
his goats straying there; but this is probably a mere philological speculation,
gangra signifying a goat in the Paphlagonian language. In the ecclesiastical writers
Gangra is often mentioned as the metropolitan see of Paphlagonia. (Socrat. ii.
43; Sozom. iii. 14, and elsewhere.) The orchards of this town were celebrated
for the excellence of their apples. (Athen. iii. p. 82.)
A city of Paphlagonia, near the borders of Galatia. In the time of King Deiotarus it was a royal residence, and under the Empire, the capital of Paphlagonia.
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