Cappadocia, Cappadocians

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

“Cappadocia, Cappadocians” means province of good horses

Cappadocia, Cappadocians: (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.

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