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Cilicia
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or CILICIA . A district in the S.E. corner of Asia Minor, which in NT times was divided into two portions. The Roman province Cilicia, which is alone referred to in the NT, stretched from a little E. of Corycus to Mt. Amanus, and from the Cilician Gates and Anazarbus to the sea. For administrative purposes it was combined with Syria and Phœnicia. The sense of the unity of Syria and Cilicia is seen clearly in Galatians 1:21 (also in Acts 15:23; Acts 15:41 ). The capital of the province Cilicia was Tarsus ( Acts 21:39; Acts 22:3 ). The other portion to which the name was applied was the client-kingdom of king Antiochus, which was under the suzerainty of Rome, and included Cilicia Tracheia (Rugged Cilicia) to the W., as well as a belt surrounding the Roman province on the N. and E. Neither district has as yet been thoroughly explored.
A. Souter.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Cilicia'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/c/cilicia.html. 1909.
