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Tarsus

City in Içel province, southeastern Turkey, on the River Pamuk; population (1990) 168,700. Formerly the capital of the Roman province of Cilicia, it was the birthplace of St Paul.
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About eighteen or nineteen hundred years ago, Saul, a native of Tarsus, was particularly bitter against the new sect called Christians, and he left Jerusalem and started across the country on a furious crusade against them.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Was not Saul of Tarsus converted from unbelief by a similar fright?
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
He loved Paul of Tarsus, liked St John, hated St James as much as he dared, and regarded with mixed feelings Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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