Was Tarsus a Roman city?

Likewise, people ask, where is the ancient city of Tarsus?

Turkey

Likewise, how was Paul of Tarsus a Roman citizen? The Book of Acts indicates that Paul was aRoman citizen by birth, but Helmut Koester takes issue withthe evidence presented by the text. He was from a devout Jewishfamily in the city of Tarsus, one of the largest tradecenters on the Mediterranean coast.

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.

What was Paul's hometown in the Bible?

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.