Ammuriyya (Arabic) is a Phrygian city in Anatolia in west-central Turkey. Here was born the Byzantine emperor Michael II the Amorian or the Pselo (the Tartager), initiator of the Amorian dynasty, also called the Phrygian dynasty, from 820 to 867, the year in which his grandson Michael III the Drunk was assassinated after a drunken binge.
