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  • Colossae, a city in the Roman province of Phrygia, on the ancient Lycus River ... the reader more about what the churches of Phrygia faced in the late first ...
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  • Cybele had been venerated at Pessinos in Phrygia, before its aniconic cult ... In Phrygia, Cybele was venerated as Agdistis, with a temple at the ...
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  • flourished in and around the region of Phrygia in contemporary Turkey, ... His preachings spread from his native Phrygia across the contemporary ...
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  • was banished by Emperor Constantius II to Phrygia (in modern Turkey) in 356 ... was banished by imperial decree to Phrygia, where he spent nearly four ...
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  • Epictetus was born in about 55 C.E. in Hierapolis in Phrygia (modern-day Pamukkale, in south-western Turkey). The name given by his parents, ...
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  • Furniture is the term used for a class of movable objects that may support the human body (as for seating or sleeping), provide storage, or hold ...
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  • bestowed his peace on the churches of Asia and Phrygia, he, [Praxeas], by importunately urging false accusations against the prophets themselves and their ...
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  • Antioch, and Eusebius, the bishop of Dorylaeum (Phrygia). Seeing this action as as an injustice that opened the two to a revival of Nestorianism ...
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  • The bishop of Hierapolis, Phrygia (in modern Turkey), Papias was highly regarded by many of the early Church Fathers. According to the second ...
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  • had come from the province of Asia (also called Phrygia in today's western Turkey) were accustomed to observe Easter in relation to the timing of ...
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  • to the "region of Galatia and Phrygia," the latter lying immediately west of Galatia. It is probably to these churches that the Epistle ...
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  • Thebes, Euboea, Naxos, Sparta and Phrygia) to claim that Dionysus ... through various parts of the earth. In Phrygia, the goddess Cybele, better ...
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  • Timothy did missionary journeys together, in Phrygia, Galatia, Mysia, Troa, Philippi, Berea ( |Acts|17:14|KJV ) Athens, Thessalonica ( ...
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  • from a tenth century excavation in Sebaste in Phrygia, which uncovered a marble templon whose epistyle is covered with busts of saints. There is evidence ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:Gamla uppsala.jpg|350px|thumb|The Royal mounds of Gamla ...
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  • The place of Aesop's birth is uncertain—Thrace, Phrygia, Ethiopia, Samos Island, Athens, Sardis and Amorium all claim the honor. According ...
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  • joined the Montanist sect in his later career. In Phrygia, where the Montanists were still active, the two groups seem to have cooperated and even merged ...
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  • advanced into the Roman province of Phrygia in Asia Minor with an army of 15,000 men. Nicephorus marched against him with 125,000 men. In the ...
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  • Hephaestus (IPA pronunciation: [hɪfiːstəs] or [hɪfεstəs] ; Greek Ἥφαιστος Hêphaistos) was the Greek god of fire, metals and metallurgy ...
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  • Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after İstanbul. The city is located in the northwestern part of the ...
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