A region of central Asia Minor (modern Turkey) — and the address of one of Paul's fiercest letters. ⚠ The name is genuinely ambiguous, and on it hangs the letter's date. In the strict ETHNIC sense 'Galatia' meant the highlands around Ancyra (modern Ankara), settled in the 3rd century BC by GAULS — Celtic tribes who migrated east, the same people as the Galli of France, so 'Galatians' are literally Gauls in Anatolia (Jerome, four centuries later, still heard a Celtic dialect there akin to the speech of Trier). But Rome had also made 'Galatia' a larger PROVINCE reaching south to include Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra and Derbe — the towns Paul evangelised on his first journey (Acts 13-14). The 'South Galatian' view (the province) allows the letter to be very early, c. AD 48, perhaps Paul's first; the 'North Galatian' view (the ethnic highlands) puts it in the mid-50s. The library reports both and does not vote.