Turkey in the Bible

also known as: Asia Minor, Asian Turkey, Anatolia, Anatolian peninsula, Anatolian plateau

Turkey is a Eurasian country situated in the Anatolian peninsula, located in Western Asia, and Eastern Thrace, located in southeastern Europe.

Modern Turkey is a secular state with no official religion, but 99 percent of its citizens are Muslim.

During biblical times, this strategic area had other names and was dominated or inhabited by the…

• Hittites
• Assyrians
• Chaldeans
• Babylonians
• Persians
• Phrygians
• Lydians
• Lycians
• Greeks
• Romans
• Galatians
• Cappadocians
• Cilicians
• Nicaeans
• Cimmerians
• Thracians
• Urartians
• Armenians
• Hurrians
• Hattians

Important cities and areas included…

• Miletus
• Ephesus
• Smyrna (modern Izmir)
• Byzantium (later Constantinople and Istanbul)
• Bithynia
• Cappadocia
• Pergamum (Pergamon)
• Pontus

Also see

• Asia
• Antioch On Orantes
• Ararat
• Armenia
• Assos
• Attalia
• Bithynia
• Cappadocia
• Cnidus (Cnidos)
• Derbe
• Ephesus
• Haran (Harran)
• Hittites
• Iconium
• Lystra
• Lydia
• Miletus
• Minni
• Myra
• Patara
• Perga (Perge)
• Pisidian Antioch
• Pontus Smyrna
• Tarsus
• Thessalonica
• Troas

ISLAM

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