a town of Asia Minor, formerly the capital of Lycosonia, as it is now, by the name of Komis, of Karanania, in Asia Minor. It lay at the foot of Mount Taurus, on the shores of the Lake Trogatis, about 120 miles inland from the Mediterranean. Till about the beginning of the Christian era, it was a place of little interest or importance; but by the time of Pliny, it had become large and populous, and its territory formed a tetrarchy, embracing fourteen cities, some of them of considerable size. It was visited by St. Paul in A.D. 45, and again in A.D. 51. The church planted by the apostle continued to flourish, until, by the persecutions of the Saracens, and afterwards of the Seljuks, it was nearly extinguished. Under the empire, Iconium claimed, though on no good grounds, to be regarded as a Roman colony. At a later period it was wrested from the Emperors of the East, first by the Saracens and afterwards by the Turks. The adjacent provinces, which at this time fell into the hands of that people, were constituted into a kingdom, of which Iconium was made the capital. The kings took the title of Sultans of Iconium. But it was in the time of the crusades that the city reached the culminating point of its glory. See KOINIE.