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cappadocia

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Cappadocia was a province of the Roman Empire in Anatolia (modern central-eastern Turkey ), with its capital at Caesarea . It was established in 17 AD by the Emperor Tiberius (ruled 14-37 AD), following the death of Cappadocia 's last king, Archelaus . ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient name for the region roughly corresponding to modern Turkey, from Greek Kappadokía , perhaps ultimately from Persian Hvaspadakhim "land of fine horses." In ancient Athens, Cappadocians were notorious as knaves and cowards, but the region's horses ...

Usage examples of cappadocia.

Evangeline Morphos, who is still talking to me, Richard Curtis, who is godfather for Asherah, and Tom Doherty, who saw a book idea in my photos of Cappadocia.

Thus it was Tigranes who invaded Cappadocia, Tigranes who selected the new Cappadocian king.

While he was still there, news came that both Mithridates of Pontus and Tigranes of Armenia had broken the borders of Cappadocia, and that a son of Mithridates named Ariarathes no one knew which of the several sons named Ariarathes this was was once more trying to ascend the Cappadocian throne.

John of Cappadocia, whose actions had deserved a thousand deaths, was at last condemned for a crime of which he was innocent.

The hopes of some peculiar favors, and the apprehension of being involved in the general penalties of rebellion, engaged them to promise their support to the destined successor of Athanasius, the famous George of Cappadocia.

I let Deiotarus keep a great deal more than I had intended, but he lost western Galatia to the new client-kingdom of Pergamum, and Armenia Parva to Cappadocia.

Hirtius had heard rumors that King Deiotarus of Galatia was bribing Antony, he saw those rumors confirmed when Armenia Parva was taken off Cappadocia and added to Galatia.

In the end I let Deiotarus keep a great deal more than I had intended, but he lost western Galatia to the new client-kingdom of Pergamum, and Armenia Parva to Cappadocia.

Marius and Scaurus discussed the incursions of Mithridates into Bithynia and Cappadocia.

And this is the true Mandylion, even if they say others exist: at Camulia in Cappadocia, at Memphis in Egypt, and at Anablatha near Jerusalem.

Within a month he presented himself at the court of his uncle Mithridates in Amaseia, and within a month more his uncle Mithridates had installed him alone on his throne in Mazaca, for the army of Pontus was permanently in a state of readiness, that of Cappadocia not.

They still had a long way to go to reach Eusebeia Mazaca, which, his guide told him, was the only urban settlement of any kind within Cappadocia.

And at its foot, he knew, lay Eusebeia Mazaca, the only city in Cappadocia.

We can pick it up at the top of the Cilician Gates, then we march for Eusebeia Mazaca and King Ariobarzanes, who will just have to find troops, no matter how impoverished Cappadocia is.

Though it does fall within our sphere, it seems to me that both Nicomedes and young Mithridates have assumed Cappadocia is a little too remote and a little too unimportant for Rome to go to war about.