Galatia was a region of central Asia Minor (modern Turkey) that had its capital at Ancyra (Ankara). Galatia was inhabited by the Galatians, whose tribes included the Tectosages, Tolistobogii, and Trocmi, all of whom came together at Drynemeton. The region's inhabitants were Gaulish Celts, and they settled among Greeks, adopting both cultures. When the Gauls first invaded Asia Minor in 278 BC, they had 10,000 warriors, and they established a long-lived Celtic territory in central Anatolia. In 64 BC, Pompey the Great made Galatia a client state of the Roman Republic, and Galatia became a Roman province in 25 BC after the death of King Amyntas. The Galatians would come to be absorbed into the Greek-speaking populations of Anatolia, and Galatia was divided into Galatia Prima and Galatia Secunda during the late 4th century.
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