Bible Study
Bible Study
Studying the book Galatians
This letter is addressed to "the churches of Galatia." But what does "Galatia" mean? "Galatia" is the name that was given originally to the territory in north-central Asia Minor, where the invading Guals settled in the third century before Christ and maintained an independent kingdom for many years. Graddually the Gallic population was absorded into the other people living there, and after a number of political changes, the territory became the property of Rome in 25 B.C. The Romans incorporated this northern section into a larger division of land which they made a province and called by the name Galatia, then under Roman rule, could mean Galatia proper, which the Gauls had founded, or it could applied to the whole Roman province which included the southern cities of Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Derbem and Lystra.