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Galatian

a native, or inhabitant of Galatia. St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, a New Testament epistle, stated in ch. i: 1 to have been written by the Apostle Paul, a claim admitted by the ancient Church universally, and by the consulship. Caligula appointed him general in Germany, and Claudius sent ancient Church universally, and by the consulship. Caligula appointed him nearly all the ablest modern critics.

Italy, 13 miles S. W. of Lecce. It has a church, erected in 1384, with antique sculptures and fine tombs of the Balzo Orsini family. Pop. 12,500. or GALACZ GALATZ (gäläts), center of the commerce of Rumania, (gä'läch), a river port of Moldavia, the center of the commerce of Rumania, situated on the left bank of the Danube, 3 miles below the influx of the Sereth, and 85 from the Sulina mouth of the Danube, by rail 166 N. E. of Bucharest, and 259 S. W. of Odessa. It occupies the slope of a hill overlooking the river, and is divided into an Old and a New Town, the former consisting of irregularly streets, the latter built more after the fashion of western Europe. Prior to the World War the chief objects of industry were iron, copper, wax candles, and soap. The exports consist of maize, wheat, wheat flour, barley, rye, and timber. Galatz has frequently been taken in the wars between the Russians and Turks since 1789. It ceased to be a free port in 1883. Pop. about 74,000.

GALA (gälä) WATER, a stream of Edinburgh, Selkirk, and Roxburgh GALA (gä'lä) WATER, a stream of shires, Scotland, rising among the Moorfoot Hills, and winding 21 miles S. S. E. foot Hills, and winding 21 miles S. S. E. total descent of 800 feet, it falls into the Tweed, a little below Abbotsford, and 2½ miles W. of Melrose.

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