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
During the later part of their history they were in continual contact with Assyria, and, as a Syrian power, and perhaps also as a Cappadocian one, they finally succumbed to Assyrian pressure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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
Thus the extinct nations of antiquity survive in the beneficial action they continue to exert within her, and she still feels and acknowledges the influence of the African or of the Cappadocian mind.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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