The ancient regions of Asia Minor, now called Türkiye.
Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), in the modern Turkish provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir. It was named after the Gauls, a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe who lived in Thrace and who came and settled in the area in the 3rd century BC. Galatia was bounded on the north by Bithynia and Paphlagonia, on the east by Pontus and Cappadocia, on the south by Cilicia and Lycaonia, and the west by Phrygia. Its capital was Ancyra (modern-day Ankara). The Apostle Paul visited Galatia during his missionary journeys and wrote to the Christians there in his Epistle to the Galatians.
