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Cappadocian refers to someone or something from Cappadocia, a region in Asia Minor (Anatolia), in modern Turkey.
Cappadocian can also refer to:
- Cappadocian Greek, a dialect of the Greek language, formerly spoken in Cappadocia
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Cappadocian Fathers, three prominent ancient Christian writers from Cappadocia:
- Basil of Caesarea ( – 379)
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nazianzus
Usage examples of "cappadocian".
He had her son back on the Cappadocian throne quicker than you can say Lucius Tiddlypuss.
Until, that is, she succumbed to the blandishments of old King Nicomedes of Bithynia, for she fancied ruling independently of Mithridates and his Cappadocian watchdog, Gordius.
Gordius his Cappadocian father-in-law to see him in the night marches, a finger upon his lips, a hand indicating that they should meet upon the battlements above the palace as soon as possible.
Roman legions are composed of Romans, not Cappadocian peasants or Syrian mercenaries.
Yes, the times were good for Gordius, who, as Marius had shrewdly guessed, was not a prince of the old Cappadocian royal house.
Ma at that Comana in a Cappadocian valley between the upper Sarus and the upper Pyramus Rivers.
The little Cappadocian lad who was the king is dead, I suspect killed by Mithridates.
Fed up with being ruled by a son of Mithridates and the grandson of his Pontic puppet, Gordius, the Cappadocians had been trying ever since Gaius Marius departed from Mazaca to find a truly Cappadocian king.
Their Syrian choice had died, rumored by poison at the hand of Gordius, so the Cappadocians dug deeply into their genealogical records and came up with a Cappadocian baron who definitely had royal blood in his veins, one Ariobarzanes.
Thus it was Tigranes who invaded Cappadocia, Tigranes who selected the new Cappadocian king.
His camp lay in the midst of a huge expanse of flat ground and he had used his time in fortifying it formidably, despite the fact that the Cappadocian lack of forests had meant fetching the timber from the Cilician Gates.
King Ariobarzanes is a Cappadocian, and chosen by his own people in place of your son Ariarathes Eusebes.
He secured Galatia by the mass murder of its chieftains, and has murdered at least one of the Cappadocian kings.
Then came Gordius his Cappadocian father-in-law to see him in the night marches, a finger upon his lips, a hand indicating that they should meet upon the battlements above the palace as soon as possible.
When the boy king who was the son of Mithridates asserted his right to rule aloneno doubt supported by his fatherGordius intended to make sure that he was given the temple kingdom of Ma at that Comana in a Cappadocian valley between the upper Sarus and the upper Pyramus Rivers.