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Colossae. / 37.78667°N 29.26000°E / 37.78667; 29.26000. Colossae ( / kəˈlɒsi /; Greek: Κολοσσαί) was an ancient city of Phrygia in Asia Minor, and one of the most celebrated cities of southern Anatolia (modern Turkey ). The Epistle to the Colossians, an early Christian text which identifies its author as Paul the Apostle ...
Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, [a] is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.Geographically, the Anatolian region is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Turkish Straits to the north-west, and the Black Sea to the north.
The Metropolis of Philadelphia ( Greek: Μητρόπολη Φιλαδελφείας) was an ecclesiastical territory ( diocese) of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in western Asia Minor, modern Turkey. Christianity in the city of Philadelphia was introduced before the middle of the 1st century AD. Today the Metropolis of ...
Asia (Ancient Greek: Ἀσία) was a Roman province covering most of western Asia Minor (Anatolia), which was created following the Roman Republic's annexation of the Attalid Kingdom in 133 BC. After the establishment of the Roman Empire by Augustus , it was the most prestigious senatorial province and was governed by a proconsul .
Map of the Roman East in 62 BC, after Pompey's reorganization. Roman provinces in red, client kingdoms in yellow. Pompey's eastern settlement was the reorganization of Asia Minor and the Levant carried out by the Roman general Pompey in the 60s BC, in the aftermath of his suppression of piracy, his victory in the Third Mithridatic War and the dissolution of the Seleucid Empire, which brought ...
Description. According to Revelation 1:11, on the Greek island of Patmos, Jesus Christ instructs John of Patmos to: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven Churches: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea ." [ 1] The churches in this context refers to the ...
Arzawa, roughly part of West Asia Minor / Anatolia, it was formed in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC (roughly from the late 15th century BC until the beginning of the 12th century BC). Contemporary to Assuwa in Western Anatolia (capital was known as Apasa by the Hittites , later called Ephesos by the Greeks ).
Original upload log. This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Asia_Minor_Political_500BC.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0, GFDL . 2009-04-22T07:38:42Z MinisterForBadTimes 921x596 (283615 Bytes) Coloured in rogue region