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Galatia
Galatia. Ancient district in central Anatolia, between the Halys (now Kizilirmak) and Sangarius (Sakarya), settled by Celtic peoples from the 3rd century BC until they were absorbed into Hellenistic civilization. Culturally much like the Celts of Continental Europe, their name is a variant of Gaul. The Galatians clung to their language and customs despite being distant from the centres of Celtic civilization. The neighbouring Greeks accommodated them by explaining that they derived from Heracles and his Gaulish lover Galata. Their country was the site of one of several shrines known as Drunemeton. Evangelized by St Paul in the Epistle to the Galatians. As late as the 5th century St Jerome reported that the language of Ancyra (Ankara) was similar to that spoken near Treves (Trier) in the Moselle valley, of what is today Germany and France.
Bibliography See Stephen Mitchell , Land, Men and Gods in Asia Minor (2 vols., Oxford, 1993). |
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JAMES MacKILLOP. "Galatia." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAMES MacKILLOP. "Galatia." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-Galatia.html JAMES MacKILLOP. "Galatia." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-Galatia.html |
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Galatia
Galatia [Gr.,=Gaul], ancient territory of central Asia Minor, in present Turkey (around modern Ankara). It was so called from its inhabitants, the Gauls, who invaded from the west and conquered it in the 3d cent. BC The name applies to the Gallic territory that was originally composed of parts of Phrygia and Cappadocia. Attalus I checked (230 BC) the advance of the Gauls and reduced the size of Galatia. The region was subjected (189 BC) by the Romans. The name was also used for the Roman province, formed in 25 BC At first the Roman province was much larger than old Galatia, but it was reduced (AD 72) to a smaller scope. |
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"Galatia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Galatia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Galatia.html "Galatia." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Galatia.html |
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Galatia
Galatia The difficulty about precisely identifying the area mentioned in 1 Cor. 16: 1; Gal. 1: 2; 2 Tim. 4: 10; and 1 Pet. 1: 1, is that it may refer to the limited territory in Asia Minor dominated by the warlike Gauls, or to the Roman province of Galatia which also embraced parts of other territories to the south. The cities visited by Paul according to the Acts were in the province but not the territory—Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. So these could have been the Churches to whom Paul's epistle to the Galatians was addressed.
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W. R. F. BROWNING. "Galatia." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. W. R. F. BROWNING. "Galatia." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-Galatia.html W. R. F. BROWNING. "Galatia." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-Galatia.html |
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Galatia
Galatia, Turkey An ancient region, now in central Turkey, named after the Gauls, European Celtic tribes who were called Galatae or Galatoi by contemporary writers; thus the ‘Land of the Gauls’ or ‘Land of the Celts’. They settled in the area towards the end of the 3rd century bc, having been invited to serve as mercenaries by Nicomedes I, King of Bithynia (c.279–255 bc), in his fight with the Seleucid King Antiochus I (324–261 bc), who controlled most of Anatolia. Galatia became a Roman province in 25 bc.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Galatia." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Galatia." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Galatia.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Galatia." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Galatia.html |
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Galatia
Galatia an ancient region in central Asia Minor, settled by invading Gauls (the Galatians) in the 3rd century bc. It later became a protectorate of Rome and then (with some further territories) a province of the Roman Empire.
Epistle to the Galatians a book of the New Testament, an epistle of St Paul to the Church in Galatia. |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Galatia." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Galatia." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Galatia.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Galatia." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Galatia.html |
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"Galatia." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Galatia." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Galatia.html "Galatia." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Galatia.html |
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