Pamphylia in Biblical History

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What is Pamphylia?
PAMPHYL'IA
(region of every tribe), a Roman province in Asia Minor. Acts 27:5. It was bounded on the east by Cilicia, on the north by Pisidia - from which it was separated by the Taurus Mountains - on the west by Lycia, and on the south by the sea. Claudius made Pamphylia an imperial province. including in it the regions of Pisidia and Lycia, which are distinguished from Pamphylia proper. Acts 13:13-14; Gen 14:24; Acts 27:5. Physical Features. - Sweeping around the head of the bay in crescent form and extending to the Taurus Mountains on the north is a plain about 80 miles long and 30 miles broad. This is Pamphylia proper. Three principal rivers intersect this plain, the Catarrhactes, the Cestrus, and the Eurynedon. The Cestrus was navigable for 7 miles to the city of Perga, which appears to have been the capital of the province, and Attalia its chief seaport. Acts 14:25. History. - Pamphylia, according to Herodotus, was a small territory during the Persian war, when it sent only thirty ships, while Cilicia contributed one hundred. The Romans united it to the province of Asia, but later it was detached, and was included in the jurisdiction of M. Tullius Cicero. Its capital, Perga, was the first place in Asia Minor visited by Paul on his first missionary tour, and there Mark left him. Acts 13:13. On his return from Pisidia he preached at Perga, and from Attalia sailed to Antioch. Acts 14:24-26. Strangers from Pamphylia were at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. PAN is, in our version, the rendering of six different Hebrew words, of which two seem to have denoted flat plates of metal, such as are still used in the East for baking cakes of meal, while the others seem to have denoted deeper vessels, used for boiling purposes. Lev 2:6; Ex 6:21.

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