Galatia

Galatia
Ancient region of Anatolia
Anatolia in the Greco-Roman period. The classical regions and their main settlements, including Galatia.
Location	Central Anatolia, Turkey
State existed	280–64 BC
Successive languages	Galatian, Greek
Achaemenid satrapy	Cappadocia
Roman province	Galatia

Galatia (/ɡəˈleɪʃə/; Ancient Greek: Γαλατία, Galatía, "Gaul") was an ancient area in the highlands of central Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir, in modern Turkey. Galatia was named after the Gauls from Thrace (cf. Tylis), who settled here and became a small transient foreign tribe in the 3rd century BC, following the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC. It has been called the "Gallia" of the East.^[1]