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Lycia
A wolf, a province in the south-west of Asia Minor, opposite the island of Rhodes. It forms part of the region now called Tekeh. It was a province of the Roman empire when visited by Paul (Acts 21:1; Acts 27:5). Two of its towns are mentioned, Patara (Acts 21:1, Acts 21:2) and Myra (Acts 27:5).
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Acts 27:5 And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
