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Cappadocia
The easternmost and the largest province of Asia Minor. Christianity very early penetrated into this country (1 Pet 1:1). On the day of Pentecost there were Cappadocians at Jerusalem (Acts 2:9).
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- Acts 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
- 1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
