Cappadocian
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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The year was 400, and the anxious writer was the Cappadocian Bishop Asterius of Amasea.
From Slate • Dec. 5, 2016
That is not the case with a underground system that’s been uncovered in what is now Turkey, which archeologists believe Cappadocian settlers used to avoid chaos above ground thousands of years ago.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2015
On the 18th of March 339 the exarch of Egypt suddenly confronted Athanasius with an imperial edict, by which he was deposed and a Cappadocian named Gregory was nominated bishop in his place.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
Other accounts place his birth at Lydda, but preserve his Cappadocian parentage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
During the later part of their history they were in continual contact with Assyria, and, as a Syrian power, and perhaps also as a Cappadocian one, they finally succumbed to Assyrian pressure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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