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).
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
Place
Cappadocia
Name meaning: the same as Caphtor (Hitchcock)
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Also in Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(province of good horses), (Acts 2:3; 1 Peter 1:1) the largest province in ancient Asia Minor. Cappadocia is an elevated table-land intersected by mountain chains. It seems always to have been deficient in wood, but it was a good grain country, and particularly famous for grazing. Its Roman metropolis was Caesarea. The native Cappadocians seem to have originally belonged to the Syrian stock.
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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