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
Only one Greek author, Herodotus, alludes to the pre-historic Cappadocian power and only at the latest moment of its long decline.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
His parents, as Philostorgius tells us, were of Cappadocian origin, and had been carried away by the Goths as captives from a place called Sadagolthina, near the town of Parnassus.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
To perfect the plot the Cappadocian arranged a secret interview at Rufinianum, one of the country seats of Belisarius.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
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