the ancient name of a province of Asia Minor, now called Anatolia. It was bounded on the east by Cappadocia, on the west by Bithynia, on the 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 because situated amidst Greek colonies, and itself mixed with Greeks, Gallagrecia; Strabo calls it Galatia and Gallagrecia; hence a twofold name of the people; Galate and Galagreci. The Greeks called it Gallia Parva; to distinguish it from the Transalpina, both which they called Galatia. 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 observance of Jewish ordinances, into which they had been seduced by some false teachers.