ASIAa'-shi-a (Asia): A Roman province embracing the greater part of western Asia Minor, including the older countries of Mysia, Lydia, Caria, and a part of Phrygia, also several of the independent coast cities, the Troad, and apparently the islands of Lesbos, Samos, Patmos, Cos and others near the Asia Minor coast (Acts 16:6; Acts 19:10, 27). It is exceeding... View Details
BITHYNIAbi-thin'-i-a (Bithunia): A coast province in northwestern Asia Minor on the Propontis and the Euxine. Its narrowest compass included the districts on both sides of the Sangarius, its one large river, but in prosperous times its boundaries reached from the Rhyndacus on the west to and beyond the Parthenius on the east. The Mysian Olympus rose in grand... View Details
CAPPADOCIAkap-a-do'-shi-a (he Kappadokia): An extensive province in eastern Asia Minor, bounded by the Taurus mountains on the South, the Anti-Taurus and the Euphrates on the East, and, less definitely, by Pontus and Galatia on the North and West. Highest mountain, Argaeus, over 13,000 ft. above sea-level; chief rivers, the Pyramus now Jihan, Sarus now Sihon... View Details
GALATIAga-la'-shi-a, ga-la'-sha (Galatia):I. INTRODUCTORY1. Two Senses of Name(1) Geographical(2) Political2. Questions to Be AnsweredII. ORIGIN OF NAME1. The Gaulish Kingdom2. Transference to Rome3. The Roman ProvinceIII. THE NARRATIVE OF LUKE1. Stages of Evangelization of Province2. The Churches MentionedIV. PAUL'S USE OF "GALATIANS"I. Introductory.1. Two... View Details
PONTUSpon'-tus (Pontos): Was an important province in the northeastern part of Asia Minor, lying along the south shore of the Black Sea. The name was geographical, not ethnical, in origin, and was first used to designate that part of Cappadocia which bordered on the "Pontus," as the Euxine was often termed. Pontus proper extended from the Halys River on the... View Details
Jesus or Joshua, the name of the Messiah, also three other Isr.