Phrygia

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Phrygia
       n : an ancient country in western and central Asia Minor

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Phrygia


     dry, an irregular and ill-defined district in Asia Minor. It was
     divided into two parts, the Greater Phrygia on the south, and
     the Lesser Phrygia on the west. It is the Greater Phrygia that
     is spoken of in the New Testament. The towns of Antioch in
     Pisidia (Acts 13:14), Colosse, Hierapolis, Iconium, and Laodicea
     were situated in it.
     

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

  Phrygia, dry; barren