LYCAONIA, a district of Asia Minor, was differently bounded at different times. Xenophon mentions it as extending westward from Cappadocia to the city of Iconium, which was afterwards situated near its centre. Under the sway of the Romans it suffered frequent dismemberments, and often changed its limits. According to Strabo, however, it was skirted on the N. by Galatia, on the E. by Cappadocia, on the S. by Mount Taurus, and on the W. by Pisidia and Phrygia. From the same author we learn that Lycania abounded in sheep and wild asses, and produced large quantities of salt. The chief towns were Iconium, Lystra, Derbe, Laodicea, Combusta, and Laranda. Daring and lawless, the Lycanians were much addicted to war and rapine, and are first mentioned in history as resisting Cyrus the younger when passing through their country on his famous expedition. They set at defiance the power of the Persians; and though subdued successively by Alexander the Great, the Seleucids, Antiochus, Eumenes of Pergamum, and the Romans, they still preserved their nationality. In the Acts of the Apostles they are represented as having a language of their own.