Lycaonia , an old region inside Anatolia north of the Stiergebirge , inhabited by a fierce and warlike aboriginal people who grazed sheep and wild donkeys on the desolate central highlands. Little is known about the early Lycaonians. They appear to have escaped Persian rule, but later shared the fate of many Anatolian states falling under the rule of Alexander the Great , the Seleucids, the Attalids of Pergamon and finally the Romans. Under Roman administration, the area of Lykaon north an Galatia and to the east at Cappadocia attached . The country was traverses from one of the major highways across Anatolia along which the urban centers were clustered. Iconium was the capital and capital since Seleucid times. Lycaonia, which St Paul visited, was early Christianized and had a more fully organized by the 4th century ecclesiastical system than any other region of Anatolia.
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