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Definition of Cappadocia

1. Noun. An ancient country is eastern Asia Minor.

Definition of Cappadocia

1. Proper noun. An ancient region in the center of Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cappadocia

Literary usage of Cappadocia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries by Adolf von Harnack (1908)
"19) and the two great Gregorys were sons of cappadocia.2 Withal, a popular Christianity developed simultaneously in cappadocia, which became fused with ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"cappadocia, in this sense, was bounded S. by the chain of Mount Taurus, ... This district in the time of Strabo formed a portion of cappadocia and was ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"... te other treatises more valuable should be confounded in their loss. Julian. E|< xxxvi '""The life and death of George of cappadocia are described by ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"As after the fall of the Persian government the if о provinces continued to be separate, the distinction was perpetuated, and the name cappadocia came to be ..."

5. A Manual of Ancient History, from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the by George Rawlinson (1871)
"V. KINGDOM OF cappadocia. 1. After the division of the cappadocian satrapy ... 2 Perdiccas, having subjected cappadocia, made over his conquest to Eumenes, ..."

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