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Definition of galatia in English English dictionary
- A region of ancient Asia Minor, in what is now central Turkey; a province of ancient Rome
- {i} ancient country in central Asia Minor that became a Roman province in 25 B.C. (place where the early Christian community settled)
- Ancient district, central Anatolia. It was occupied early in the 3rd century BC by Celtic tribes who were then overpowered by the Seleucid king Antiochus I (Soter) in 275 BC. At that point the Celts, called Galatae (Galatians) by 3rd-century-BC writers, settled in the territory to which they gave their name. Passing successively under the rule of Pergamum and Pontus, Galatia became a Roman protectorate in 85 BC. By the 2nd century AD, the region had become absorbed into the Hellenistic civilization
- an ancient country in central Asia Minor
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- {n} a native of Galatia, now Amasia on the south shore of the Euxine
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- A person from Galatia
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- {s} of or pertaining to Galatia (in Asia Minor)
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- {i} native or resident of Galatia (in Asia Minor)
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- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor
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- a native or inhabitant of Galatia in Asia Minor (especially a member of a people believed to have been Gauls who conquered Galatia in the 3rd century BC)
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- Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants
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() From Ancient Greek Γαλατία (Galatia).Resimler
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