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Gala'tia. (land of the Galli, Gauls). The Roman province of Galatia may be roughly described as the central region of the peninsula of Asia Minor, bounded on the north by Bithynia and Paphlagonia; on the east, by Pontus; on the south, by Cappadocia and Lycaonia; on the west, by Phrygia. - Encyclopedia Britannica.

It derived its name from the Gallic or Celtic tribes who, about 280 B.C., made an irruption into Macedonia and Thrace. It finally became a Roman province. The Galatia of the New Testament has really the "Gaul" of the East. The people have always been described as "susceptible of quick impressions and sudden changes, with a fickleness equal to their courage and enthusiasm, and a constant liability to that disunion which is the fruit of excessive vanity.

The Galatian churches were founded by Paul at his first visit, when he was detained among, them by sickness, Galatians 4:13, during his second missionary journey, about A.D 51. He visited them again on his third missionary tour.

Bibliography Information
Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'alatia'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​sbd/​a/alatia.html. 1901.
 
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