Colossae

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Colossae was an ancient Phrygian city in Asia Minor, notable in early Christianity as the community addressed by the New Testament Epistle to the Colossians.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city
archaeological site
archaeologicalStatus unexcavated major site
associatedWith Apostle Paul
Epaphras
Timothy
citedBy Herodotus
Strabo
Xenophon
country Turkey
declinedByCentury 1st century CE
destroyedBy earthquake
destroyedInCentury 1st century CE
distanceFrom about 15 km southeast of Laodicea
about 20 km from Hierapolis
economyBasedOn textile production
wool trade
flourishedInCentury 4th century BCE
5th century BCE
flourishedInPeriod Classical antiquity
hasModernName Honaz Höyük
hasType ancient Anatolian city
biblical site
knownFor Epistle to the Colossians
surface form: New Testament Epistle to the Colossians

early Christian community
languageUsed Greek
Phrygian
locatedIn Asia Minor
Phrygia
locatedInPresentDay Turkey
locatedInProvince Denizli
surface form: Denizli Province
locatedInRegion southwestern Turkey
locatedNear Hozat
surface form: Honaz
locatedOnTradeRoute route between Ephesus and the Euphrates
mentionedIn Epistle to Philemon
Epistle to the Colossians
partOf Achaemenid Empire
Byzantine Empire
Hellenistic period
surface form: Hellenistic world

Roman Empire
regionHistorically Phrygia
surface form: Lydia-Phrygia border area
religionPracticed Greco-Roman paganism
early Christianity
religiousSignificance important site for early Christianity
situatedInValley Lycus Valley
situatedOn Lycus River
supersededBy Hierapolis
Laodicea
surface form: Laodicea on the Lycus

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