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Galatia

Found only in 1 Cor. 16:1; Gal. 1:2; 2 Tim. 4:10; 1 Pet. 1:1, the name “Galatia” described “a region of Asia Minor, bounded by Paphlagonia, Pontus, Cappadocia, Lycaonia, Phrygia, and Bithynia.  It took its name from those Gallic tribes that crossed into Asia Minor B. C. 278, and after roaming about there for a time at length settled down permanently in the above-mentioned region, and intermarried with the Greeks. From B.C. 189 on, though subject to the Romans, they were governed by their own chiefs; but B. C. 24 [al. 25] their country was formally reduced to a Roman province” (Thayer, p. 108).