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
Satellite view of modern Turkey
More information
- 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
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Article Version: June 5, 2019