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Book SynopsisThis volume covers the geographical spread of Christianity in its first three centuries. It is arranged by continents - Asia, Europe and Africa - to show the gradual development of Christian communities down to the Council of Nicaea in 325. The area surveyed stretches from Wales to the borders of India, and from the Northern coasts of the Black Sea to the plains of Morocco. The result is a picture not only of the outward development of early Christianity but of the variety that existed within it as well.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART ONE: CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN ASIA BEFORE 325 C.E. Palestine; Syria Phoenice; Syria Proper; Arabia; (Roman) Mesopotamia; Assyria and Babylonia Persia; India and Bactria; Isauria, Cilicia, and Cyprus; Dioecesis of Asia; Dioecesis of Pontica; Pontus Polemoniacus, Colchis, and Transcaucasian Iberia; Armenia Major PART TWO: CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE BEFORE 325 C.E. Dioecesis of Thrace; North and Northwest Coasts of the Black Sea; Greece Province Dalmatia; Moesia Superior; Dacia Traiana; Pannonia; Dioecesis of the City of Rome; Dioecesis of Italy Noricum; Raetia; Germania (Superior and Inferior); Gaul; Britannia; Hispania PART THREE:CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA BEFORE 325 C.E. Egypt; Cyrenaica and Libya; Africa Proconsularis; Numidia; Mauretania Sitifensis; Mauretania Caesariensis; Mauretania Tingitana; Unlocatable Christian Communities in North Africa; Ethiopia (Aksum) to the mid-Fourth Century Maps Unplaced Sites Bibliography and Abbreviations Index
