Colossae or Colosse, a city of Phrygia, on the Lycus, which is a tributary of the Maeander. It was about 12 miles above Laodicea, and near the great road from Ephesus to the Euphrates, and was consequently of some mercantile importance. In antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of the Anatolian highlands, part of modern Turkey, from ca. ... In Greek mythology, Lycus, or Lykos, referred to several people. ... The Maeander River is the classical Latin name for the Büyük Menderes River in southwestern Turkey. ... Denizli is a province of Turkey in Western Anatolia. ... Ephesus (Greek: Έφεσσος) was one of the great cities of the Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor, located in Lydia where the Cayster river flows into the Aegean Sea (in modern day Turkey). ... Length 2,800 km Elevation of the source 4,500 m Average discharge 818 m³/s Area watershed 765,831 km² Origin Lake Van Mouth Shatt al Arab Basin countries Turkey Syria Iraq Boat on the Shatt-al-Arab The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, which is...

In 396, during the Persian Wars, the Persian satrap Tissaphernes was lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of Cyrus. Tissaphernes (Pers. ...

It does not appear that St. Paul had visited this city when he wrote his letter to the church there (Col. 1:2). He expresses in his letter to Philemon (ver. 1:22) his hope to visit it on being delivered from his imprisonment. From Col. 1:7; 4:12 it has been concluded that Epaphras was the founder of the Colossian church. This town afterwards fell into decay, and the modern town of Chonas or Chonum occupies a site near its ruins. A 19th-century picture of Paul of Tarsus Paul of Tarsus (originally Saul of Tarsus) or Saint Paul the Apostle (c. ... The Epistle to the Colossians is a book of the Bible New Testament. ... Philemon was a person in the Bible New Testament and the recipient of the Epistle to Philemon. ... Epaphras was a Christian preacher who spread the Gospel to his fellow Colossian citizens (Col. ...

Initial text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897 -- Please update as needed