in Ancient Geography, a once large and important city of Asia Minor, on the confines of Bithynia and Galatia, a few miles north from the right bank of the Sangarius. It was at one time the residence of the old kings of Phrygia, and a place of considerable note, but it dwindled down into a mere village, and was at length rebuilt by Augustus, who called it Juliolipolis. Its name has been preserved by the story of the Gordian knot, which it was foretold that he who should first untie should receive the empire of Asia. Alexander the Great, in the course of his eastern conquests, arriving at Gordium, cut the knot with his sword, and applied the oracle to himself.