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cappadocian

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Cap⋅pa⋅do⋅cia

[kap-uh-doh-shuh]
–noun
an ancient country in E Asia Minor: it became a Roman province in a.d. 17.

Cap⋅pa⋅do⋅cian, adjective, noun
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Cap·pa·do·cia   (kāp'ə-dō'shə, -shē-ə)   
An ancient region of Asia Minor in present-day east-central Turkey. Heart of a Hittite state and later a Persian satrapy, it was annexed by the Romans in A.D. 17.
Cap'pa·do'cian adj. & n.
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