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To: SunkenCiv

“This indicates that this area was an important center for Christianity, and it was the capital of Pisidia,” Ozhanli said.

Pisidian Antioch (also called Antioch-of-Pisidia) was a major Roman colony that was visited by St. Paul on his First Missionary Journey. Pisidian Antioch marked an important turning point in Paul’s ministry, as the city became the first to have a fully Gentile Christian community.

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cool article.

but sadly, also a reminder, that Turkey was once a Christan nation, and a cradle of early Christianity.
...until Islam conquered the middle-east, by force and terror.


4 posted on 07/28/2011 9:15:33 PM PDT by Elendur (“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.” - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Elendur

We still have Armenia


6 posted on 07/28/2011 9:37:35 PM PDT by tsowellfan ( Obamanomic Wreckovery - How's That Change Working For Ya?)
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