Lycaonia

[ lik-ey-oh-nee-uh, -ohn-yuh, lahy-key- ]

/ ˌlɪk eɪˈoʊ ni ə, -ˈoʊn yə, ˌlaɪ keɪ- /

an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.

Example sentences from the Web for lycaonia

But still a work had to be done in Lycaonia and Pisidia if the results of his labours were not to be lost.

The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 |G. T. Stokes
Garsauritis appears to have comprised the western or south-western districts adjoining Lycaonia; its chief town was Archelais.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 |Various
Lycaonia had all the Iconian plain; but Isauria began as soon as the foothills were reached.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 8 |Various
The Greeks had passed through a part of Lycaonia in their march up the country, i. 2.

The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis |Xenophon

Thence he marched through Lycaonia five stages—thirty parasangs.

Anabasis |Xenophon

Lycaonia

/ (ˌlɪkəˈəʊnɪə) /

an ancient region of S Asia Minor, north of the Taurus Mountains; corresponds to present-day S central Turkey