Cilicia
   a maritime province in the south-east of Asia Minor. Tarsus, the
   birth-place of Paul, was one of its chief towns, and the seat of
   a celebrated school of philosophy. Its luxurious climate
   attracted to it many Greek residents after its incorporation
   with the Macedonian empire. It was formed into a Roman province,
   B.C. 67. The Jews of Cilicia had a synagogue at Jerusalem (Acts
   6:9). Paul visited it soon after his conversion (Gal. 1:21; Acts
   9:30), and again, on his second missionary journey (15:41), "he
   went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches." It was
   famous for its goat's-hair cloth, called cilicium. Paul learned
   in his youth the trade of making tents of this cloth.
   

Cilicia, which rolls or overturns