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Likewise, people ask, where is the ancient city of Tarsus?
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Likewise, people ask, what was a Roman free city?
A free city (Latin: civitas libera, urbs liberaecondicionis; Greek:?λευθέρακα?α?τόνομοςπόλις) was a self-governed cityduring the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial eras. This namewas also given to those cities subject to the Romans,which were permitted to enjoy their own laws, and elect their ownmagistrates.
Paul was a Greek-speaking Jew from Asia Minor.His birthplace, Tarsus, was a major city in eastern Cilicia, aregion that had been made part of the Roman province of Syria bythe time of Paul's adulthood. Two of the main cities ofSyria, Damascus and Antioch, played a prominent part in his lifeand letters.