Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- An ancient country of central Asia Minor in the region surrounding modern Ankara, Turkey. Settled by Celtic tribes in the third century B.C., it became a Roman province in 25 B.C.
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- proper n. A region of ancient Asia Minor, in what is now central Turkey; a province of ancient Rome.
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- n. an ancient country in central Asia Minor
Etymologies
Examples
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In the New Testament, the term Galatia occurs three times.
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Plutarch speaks of Ravenna as in Gaul, which he calls Galatia; but though Ravenna was within the limits of Cisalpine
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That he had not been silent in Galatia on contributions for the poor, appears from the hint let fall in his
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Galatia is mentioned first here, as he would come to it first from Antioch.
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Jewish Christians sojourning in Galatia (1Pe 1: 1), among other places mentioned.
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Illiberis were held about the same time, the one in Galatia, the other in Spain; but their respective canons, which are still extant, seem to breathe a very different spirit.
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In the Book of Galatians, St. Paul writes to the church in Galatia, which is struggling with infighting about whether new converts had to first become Jews before they could become Christians.
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The phrase, "all the brethren," accords with a date when he had many travelling companions, he and they having to bear jointly the collection to Jerusalem [Conybeare and Howson]. the churches -- Pessinus and Ancyra were the principal cities; but doubtless there were many other churches in Galatia (Ac 18: 23; 1Co
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[Gal.i. 2], and we read not of any city in Galatia where a church was)
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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[431] Meaning the province in Asia, called Galatia, from the Gauls who conquered it, and occupied it jointly with the Greek colonists.
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