Hellespontine Phrygia

Hellespontine Phrygia
Satrapy of the Persian Empire
525 BC–321 BC
The location of Hellespontine Phrygia, and the provincial capital of Dascylium, in the Achaemenid Empire, c. 500 BC.
Capital	Dascylium (modern-day Ergili, Bandırma, Balıkesir, Turkey)
History
• Established	525 BC
• Disestablished	321 BC
Succeeded by Macedonian Empire

Hellespontine Phrygia (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλησποντιακὴ Φρυγία, romanized: Hellēspontiakē Phrygia) or Lesser Phrygia (Ancient Greek: μικρᾶ Φρυγία, romanized: mikra Phrygia) was a Persian satrapy (province) in northwestern Anatolia, directly southeast of the Hellespont.^[1] Its capital was Dascylium, and for most of its existence it was ruled by the hereditary Persian Pharnacid dynasty.^[2] Together with Greater Phrygia, it made up the administrative provinces of the wider Phrygia region.^[3]