Berea, pronounced Ver-ee-a in Greek, is 73km WSW of Thessaloniki and 511km NNW from Athens. Situated at the foot of the Vermio Mountains overlooking the plain below, Berea is a very old city and is mentioned by Thucydides in 432BC, which makes it older than Thessaloniki.
The most surprisi…
Thessaloniki (AV Thessalonica) was located at the intersection of two major Roman roads, one leading from Italy eastward (Egnatian Way) and the other from the Danube to the Aegean. Its location combined with its natural port facilities made it a prominent city. In 168BC it became the capit…
Amphipolis is mentioned only once in the Bible in Acts 17:1: “Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews”. The word Amphipolis is derived from “amphi” (on both sides, or around) and “polis” (city) and re…
In we learn that when Paul and Timothy came to Troas “a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us…Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Nea…
Mytilene (pron. mit-l-ee-nee) is the capital city of the Greek Island, Lesvos, in the north eastern Aegean Sea and was established in the south-eastern part of the isle.
In the first century AD Mytilene was a small islet just off the coast of its larger neighbour Lesvos. Both were connect…
Assos is a city on the coast of the western part of what is now Turkey. It is only mentioned in the Bible in Acts 20:13-14.
A famous resident of Assos was Aristotle, who lived from 384-322BC. According to Britannica, he was a philosopher, psychologist, logician, moralist, political …
Samothraki is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea measuring 21km east-west and 13km north-south and is mentioned only once in Scripture, in Acts 16:11 where it is called Samothracia.
Paul had received a vison at Troas in which a man from Macedonia had appealed to him to a…
Rhodes is an island 18km from South West Turkey and is one of the furthest islands from Greece. It’s mentioned possibly in Genesis 10:4 and 1 Chronicles 1:7 where the LXX renders Dodanim as Rodanim, or Rhodes, and occurs in Acts 21:1 when Paul is travelling to Jerusalem a day after stoppin…
Samos is an island in the eastern Aegean Sea only 1.6 kilometres from what is now called Turkey and is only mentioned in the Bible once, in Acts 20:15, when Paul was travelling to Jerusalem.
The island itself is 43 kilometres long (east to west) and 13 kilometres wide (north to south) with …
Kos is a Greek island in the south eastern Aegean Sea, four kilometres from the coast of mainland Turkey. The island measures 40 by 8 kilometres and only appears once in the Bible in Acts 21:1, where it is translated as Coos. Today the principal town of the island and seat of the municipal…
