Places of the Bible
Cilicia
Region · region
What happened here
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Second Missionary Journey begins · 47 AD
- Journey to Rome begins · 56 AD
- Paul's Journey to Rome · 56 AD
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Cilicia, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Stephen is seized · 30 AD · 1 verse
- Jerusalem Council · 46 AD · 1 verse
- Second Missionary Journey · 46 AD · 2 verses
- Paul gives his testimony · 54 AD · 2 verses
- Paul sent to Felix · 56 AD · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
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 M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 8 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.