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The last are ignorant or regardless of the affairs of _Roum_.] [Footnote 7: Iconium is mentioned as a station by Xenophon, and by Strabo, with an ambiguous title of KwmopoliV, (Cellarius, tom.ii.
p. 121.) Yet St.Paul found in that place a multitude (plhqoV) of Jews and Gentiles.
under the corrupt name of _Kunijah_, it is described as a great city, with a river and garden, three leagues from the mountains, and decorated (I know not why) with Plato's tomb, (Abulfeda, tabul. xvii.p.303 vers.
Reiske; and the Index Geographicus of Schultens from Ibn Said.)] In the twelfth century, three great emigrations marched by land from the West for the relief of Palestine.
The soldiers and pilgrims of Lombardy, France, and Germany were excited by the example and success of the first crusade.
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