GALATIA, the ancient name of a province of Asia Minor, now called Amasia. It was bounded on the east by Cappadocia, on the west by Bithynia, on the south by Pamphylia, and on the north by the Euxine sea. It was the north part of Phrygia Magna; but upon being occupied by the Gauls was called Galatia; and became situated amidst Greek colonies, and itself mixed with Greeks, Gallogrecia. Strabo calls it Galatia, and Gallogrecia; hence a two-fold name of the people; Galata and Gallogreci. The Greeks called it Gallia Parva; to distinguish it from the Transalpina, both which they called Gallia. It was reduced under the subjection of the Romans in the time of Augustus, and is now in the hands of the Turks. Here St Paul founded a church, to which he directed that epistle which is still known by the name of the Epistle to the Galatians, and was written to reclaim them from the observation of Jewish ordinances, into which they had been seduced by some false teachers.