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
And this kind of loaf is called the Cappadocian, since tender bread is made in the greatest quantities in Cappadocia.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Philostorgius was himself a Cappadocian, and there is no reason to doubt this statement of his on the parentage of Ulfilas.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
Constantine Ducas, another Cappadocian patrician, was then selected; during his reign of seven troubled years he proved himself to be a sorry administrator.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
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