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	Iconium: Places of the Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iconium, a city in central Asia Minor was mentioned in Acts 13:51; 14:1; 19:21 and 2 Timothy 3:11 as the scene of trials which Paul faced and in Acts 16:2 as a place where Timothy was commended.
		Iconium loved to connect itself with Greek legend and it derived its name from the image of Medusa, brought there by Perseus, or from the clay images of men made by Prometheus there after the Flood to replace the drowned people.
		Iconium shared in the urban culture in the empire which tended to be uniformly Greco Roman, and also in the rural culture which preserved the local language and customs.
	www.mustardseed.net /html/piconium.html (599 words)

	Konya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Konya (also Koniah, Konieh, Konia, and Qunia; historically known as Iconium, Greek: Ικόνιον) is a city in Turkey, on the central plateau of Anatolia.
		It has a population of 742 690 (in 2000) and it is the capital of Konya Province, which is the biggest Turkish province in terms of area.
		Iconium is an ancient city, visited by Saint Paul according to the Book of Acts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Konya (319 words)

	Paul's First Missionary Journey, Iconium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the apostolic period, Iconium was one of the chief cities in the southern part of the Roman province Galatia, and it probably belonged to the "Phrygian region" mentioned in Ac 16:6.
		The emperor Claudius conferred on it the title Claudiconium, which appears on coins of the city and on inscriptions, and was formerly taken as a proof that Claudius raised the city to the rank of a Roman colonia.
		Iconium was still a Hellenic city, but with a strong pro-Roman bias (as proved by its title "Claudian") when Paul visited it.
	www.geocities.com /dryoussefnattia/iconium.html (576 words)

	Iconium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iconium was located in the central plateau region at the foot of the Taurus Mountains, a five to six thousand foot mountain range.
		Iconium had a good water supply and was well situated for defense.
		Although a great multitude believed the gospel at Iconium, because of their Jewish instigators the city was divided in opinion about the message preached by the evangelists.
	www.bible-history.com /pauls_first_mission_map/PAULS_FIRST_MISSIONIconium.htm (159 words)

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	ICONIUM - LoveToKnow Article on ICONIUM
		It was a metropolis and an archbishopric, and one of the earliest councils of the church was held there in A.D. The ecclesiastical organization of Lycaonia and the country round Iconium on all sides was complete in the early 4th century, and monuments of later 3rd and 4th cnntury Christianity are extremely numerous.
		The city was thrice visited by St Paul, probably in A.D. 47, 50 and 53; and it is the principal scene of the tale of Paul and Thecla (which though apocryphal, has certainly some historical basis; see TITECLA).
		There was a distinct Roman element in Iconium, arising doubtless from the presence of Roman traders.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IC/ICONIUM.htm (1085 words)

	MISSIONARIES AT ICONIUM
		Iconium (modern Konya) was the next city in which Paul and Barnabas would carry on missionary work.
		This probably entailed a sustained campaign to discredit the teaching of Paul and Barnabas, perhaps ridiculing their claim that Jesus was the Messiah.
		By mentioning that Lystra and Derbe were in the region of Lycaonia, Luke was implying that Iconium was in a different political realm.
	www.wcg.org /lit/bible/acts/acts14.htm (3971 words)

	The Church at Iconium
		The topographical position of Iconium is clearly indicated in Acts, and the evidence of Acts has been confirmed by recent research.
		In the apostolic period, Iconium was one of the chief cities in the southern part of the Roman province Galatia, and it probably belonged to the “Phrygian region” mentioned in Acts 16:6.
		Paul's experiences at Iconium form part of theme of the semi-historical legend of Thekla, on which see Professor Ramsay's Church in the Roman Empire, 380ff.
	www.astheoracles.org /index-236.htm (565 words)

	The First Christian Century
		As regards name, wherever Hellenic education had laid hold of a city of the Aegean lands or Western Asia, the Greek-speaking population counted themselves Hellenes, for Hellenism in that age was not a fact of blood, but of manners, ideals and language.
		Hence Paul found in Iconium the Phrygian city, just as he found in Antioch the Roman colonia, a considerable Greek-speaking population; and it was among this section of the inhabitants that he chiefly gained his converts.
		The association of Hermes with Zeus in Anatolian popular religion is proved specially for the district of Phrygia adjoining Iconium towards Tyriaion, 4 and for the district of Lycaonia adjoining Lystra (or perhaps belonging to Lystra), as Mr.
	webminister.com /ramsay/rfc025.shtml (899 words)

	Church History Documents - The Acts of Paul and Thecla
		Iconium, located off the Roman military highway between Antioch and Lystra, was the capital of Lycaonia in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and had a large Jewish population.
		You have perverted the city of Iconium, and among the rest, Thecla, who is betrothed to me, so that now she will not marry me. You must therefore go with us to the governor Castellius.
		Thus suffered that first martyr and apostle of God, the virgin Thecla, who came from Iconium at eighteen years of age; afterwards, partly in journeys and travels, and partly in a monastic life in the cave, she lived seventy-two years, so that she was ninety years old when the Lord translated her.
	www.bsmvt.org /thecla.html (7928 words)

	Iconium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the central plateau of the Lycaonian District, Iconium was a city set amidst a very large fertile plain that stretched to the north and east.
		Ramsey noted that the historian Strabo was struck by the difference between the barren fields of the Lycaonian plains, and the lush area around Iconium.
		By 25 BCE, Iconium was brought under the Roman province of Galatia.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /Tours/Interest/Biblicals/iconium.htm (401 words)

	Bible Study - Ikonion
		Iconium, from the Greek Ikonion, was the capital city of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor (today Turkey), situated about 120 miles / 195 kilometers inland from The Mediterranean Sea.
		When they had preached the Gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the Kingdom of God.
		A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/20020820.htm (375 words)

	iconium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		eo:Konjao nl:Konya Konya (Koniah, Konieh, Konia, Historically called Iconium) is a city in Turkey, on the central plateau of Anatolia.
		Its ancient name was Iconium and it is the capital of Konya Province.
		From 1063 - 1139 it was the capital of the Seljuk Sultans of Rum (See Sultans of Rum.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Iconium.html (199 words)

	Lystra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But Jews from Iconium and Antioch of Pisidia came to Lystra and turned its citizens against the missionaries.
		Lystra is located about 18 miles southwest of Iconium and it was not positively identified until the discovery of an inscription in that area in 1885.
		It was off the main roads, and its inhabitants spoke their native Lycaonian language rather than the Greek used by most citizens of the Roman Empire in Paul's day (Acts 14:11).
	www.bible-history.com /pauls_first_mission_map/PAULS_FIRST_MISSIONLystra.htm (221 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sts. Thecla
		According to this narrative Thecla was a virgin of Iconium who was converted to Christianity and led to dedicate herself to perpetual virginity by the preaching of the Apostle Paul.
		Miraculously saved from death at the stake to which she had been condemned, she went with St. Paul to Antioch in Pisidia where she was thrown to the wild beasts and was again saved from death by a miracle.
		It is easy to believe that a virgin of this name who was a native of Iconium was actually converted by St. Paul and then, like many other women of the Apostolic and later times, laboured in the work of Christian missions (cf.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14564a.htm (885 words)

	Holy Land Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iconium is situated at the western edge of the great Anatolian plateau at an elevation of 3,600 feet (1,100 m.) and roads from the east, especially from Cilicia (Tarsus) gather to it.
		From Iconium there is a pass through the mountains to the west — as the road heads toward Pisidian Antioch.
		A later legend — The Acts of Paul and Thecla (third century A.D.) — describes the exploits of Thecla who, originally from Iconium, was miraculously saved from death first by fire and then by wild beasts.
	www.holylandphotos.org /browse.asp?s=1,3,8,21,58 (244 words)

	The Catholic Encyclopedia - Iconium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was the possession of M. Antoninius Polemon, dynast of Olbe, to whom Anthony gave it, and who reigned from 39 to 26 B.C. (Pliny, "Hist.
		Paul preached here during his first mission and converted a goodly number of Jews and pagans; shortly afterwards he returned to organize the church he had founded (Acts, xiv, 20; xvi, 2); he speaks elsewhere of the persecutions he endured there (II Tim., iii, 11).
		The list might well be completed and brought down to the present time, for Iconium is yet the centre of a schismatical Greek diocese.
	jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Catholic_Encyclopedia/07619a.htm (594 words)

	Acts - Chapter 14 - Coffman's Commentary of the New Testament on SearchGodsWord.org
		Iconium was reckoned by popular native opinion as being in Phrygia;...
		Between Antioch and Iconium, a distance of 90 miles, lay rough mountainous terrain, Antioch having an altitude of 3,500 feet and Iconium having an altitude of 3,300 feet.
		It was the extensive Gentile character of Iconium which resulted in the "signs and wonders" God performed there by the hands of the apostles, thus "confirming the word" as had been promised (Mark 16:20).
	www.searchgodsword.org /com/bcc/view.cgi?book=ac&chapter=14&verse=21#Ac14_21 (5406 words)

	Iconium goes central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	www.computerweekly.co.uk /Article133309.htm (193 words)

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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Amphilochius of Iconium
		He was soon drawn within the circle of St. Basil's influence, and seems to have been for a while a member of the Christian "City of the Poor" that Basil had built at Cæsarea.
		Early in 374 he was bishop of the important see of Iconium, probably placed there by Basil, whom he continued to aid in Cappadocian ecclesiastical affairs until Basil's death (379).
		Thenceforth he remained in close relations with Gregory of Nazianzus, and accompanied him to the Synod of Constantinople (381), where St. Jerome met and conversed with him (De Vir.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01438a.htm (521 words)

	Iconium
		The apostles went east to the town of Iconium.
		Iconium was an important city in the Roman province of Galatia, in what today is Turkey.
		Located along one of the major routes connecting the eastern Roman provinces with Asia Minor to the west, Iconium was a prosperous community.
	www.luthersem.edu /ckoester/Paul/Journey1/Iconium.htm (58 words)

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		Iconium is on the Highland Rim just above the headwaters of Hill's Creek.
		The name Iconium is fairly new and was given a church there when its name was changed from Woods' Church in 1927.
		In the 1930's, Iconium had a store, a church and a school.
	www.rootsweb.com /%7Etnahgp/iconium.txt (62 words)

	Smith's Bible Dictionary (Iconium) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iconium: (little image), the modern Konieh, was the capital of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor.
		It was a large and rich city, 120 miles north from the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Taurus mountains, and on the great line of communication between Ephesus and the western coast of the peninsula on one side, and Tarsus, Antioch and the Euphrates on the other.
		Iconium was a well-chosen place for missionary operations.
	study.jcsm.org - !http: //www.jcsm.org/StudyCenter/smiths_bible_dictionary/Iconium.html (226 words)

	Acts 16:2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave
		The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.
		The same was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
		Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
	www.bible.cc /acts/16-2.htm (135 words)

	New Testament Hyper-concordance: "Iconium" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue, and so spoke that a great company believed, both of Jews and of Greeks.
		But Jews came there from Antioch and Iconium; and having persuaded the people, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
		He was well spoken of by the brethren at Lystra and Iconium.
	www.semanticbible.com /hyperconc/I/Iconium.html (140 words)

	Holy Land Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is said that the apostle Philip passed this way on his journey from Palestine to Hierapolis – where he eventually settled.
		Thecla, a follower of Paul, was originally from Iconium, and is said to have been miraculously saved from death by fire and then from wild beasts.
		Paul and Barnabas ministered in Iconium for about three months before fleeing for their lives.
	www.holylandphotos.org /browse.asp?s=1,3,8,21,58&img=TCSCKY03 (148 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Tecla of Iconium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to ancient Syrian and Greek manuscripts, Saint Tecla was born into a prosperous pagan family in the Lycaonian city of Iconium (present-day south central Turkey) in 16 AD.
		She was converted by St Paul in 34 AD, consequently she broke her engagement with her fiancé, and became a monk, wearing male attire.
		She was tied to a stake to be burned, but the flames were put out by rains from Heaven before she was even touched by them.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biot1/tecl1.html (174 words)

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