[chajin]

If an Anabaptist doesn’t believe in infant baptism, does an Anatolian believe all roads should be free?

[SunkenCiv]

Ask not for whom the Anatolian...

[imardmd1]

Seriously, the word "anatolia" in the Koine Greek of the Bible means "east" in English. It is the word used by the Greeks to refer to the land over which there were many battles with the Persians, and the beginning of the route over which Alexander, the Macedonian, began to conquer the world and spread his language.

It is also the area from which the wise men, the Magi, came to see Jesus. They were "μαγοι απο ανατολων" (magoi apo anatolohn," = wise men from the East, who saw "τον αστερα εν τη ανατολη" (ton astera en tay anatolay) = the star in the east, that is, in Anatolia, which is now also called Turkey.

Jerome, translating the Koine in the Vulgate Latin, called them "magi ab oriente" from which the carol gets "We Three Kings Of Orient Are."