Cilicia

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Cilicia
     a maritime province in the south-east of Asia Minor. Tarsus, the
     birth-place of Paul, was one of its chief towns, and the seat of
     a celebrated school of philosophy. Its luxurious climate
     attracted to it many Greek residents after its incorporation
     with the Macedonian empire. It was formed into a Roman province,


     B.C. 67. The Jews of Cilicia had a synagogue at Jerusalem (Acts
     6:9). Paul visited it soon after his conversion (Gal. 1:21; Acts
     9:30), and again, on his second missionary journey (15:41), "he
     went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches." It was
     famous for its goat's-hair cloth, called cilicium. Paul learned
     in his youth the trade of making tents of this cloth.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Cilicia, which rolls or overturns