An inland district of Asia Minor, and, after 25 B.C., a province of the Roman empire. There was a Jewish settlement there, which may have been founded by Antiochus the Great, who sent many Jewish families to Asia Minor as colonists. A proof of the existence of Jews in Galatia, according to many, is given by an edict of Augustus, which, according to Josephus ("Ant." 16:6, § 2), was published in Ancyra, the metropolis of Galatia. But the reading of the word "Ancyra" is doubtful. A better proof may be had from some inscriptions found in Galatia relating to Jews ("C. I. G." No. 4129; "Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique," 7:1883; comp. "R. E. J." 10:77). R. Akiba, who is said to have been a great traveler, speaks of "Galia" (
Bibliography:
- Cheyne and Black, Encyc. Bibl.;
- Neubauer, G. T. p. 317;
- Schürer, Gesch. 3:17;
- Lightfoot, Epistle to Galatians, Introduction;
- W. M. Ramsay, The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, 1:667 et seq.
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