Iconium in Biblical History

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What is Iconium?
ICO'NIUM
(place of images?), a large and rich city of Asia Minor, in the province of Lycaonia. It was situated on the great Roman highway from Ephesus to Tarsus. Antioch, and the Euphrates, and near the confines of Phrygia and Pisidia, at the foot of Mount Taurus, in a beautiful and fertile country, about 200 miles south-east of Constantinople and about 120 miles inland from the Mediterranean. Mountains covered with snow rise on every side, except toward the east, where there is an extensive plain. Its importance as a centre for the spread of the gospel is therefore obvious. Paul visited it on his first and second missionary journeys. Acts 13:51; Eze 14:1, Acts 14:19, Acts 14:21; Acts 16:2; 2 Tim 3:11. It is now called Konieh, and has a population of about 30,000. In 1832, on the great plain before Konieh, the Turkish army was totally defeated and dispersed by the Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha, There are important ruins of the Saracenic period around the town.

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