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Place · Region

Achaia

Named in 10 verses across 5 books, first in 1 Thessalonians 1:7.

Where

Coordinates

37.5000° N, 22.5000° E

One proposed location, not an established one.

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Identification

Uncertain

The exact spot is unknown; the point is placed by a related feature nearby.

Matched to an entry in an ancient-world gazetteer, and the match was checked by the dataset’s editors. Gazetteer entry

Some biblical sites are known for certain; others are identified from old names and descriptions and are still discussed.

Dataset notes

Not an exact location match

Left by the dataset’s contributors; not reviewed by us.

Includes

Athens

People

Born, died or recorded here, or in an event set here, first; then people named in the same verses, which does not mean they were here.

Aquilarecorded as here, 2 events
Priscillarecorded as here, 2 events
Paulrecorded as here, 1 event3 shared verses
Timotheusrecorded as here, 1 event1 shared verse
Galliorecorded as here, 1 event1 shared verse
Silasrecorded as here, 1 event
Apollosrecorded as here, 1 event
Crispusrecorded as here, 1 event
Sosthenesrecorded as here, 1 event
Justusrecorded as here, 1 event
Jesus Christ3 shared verses
God1 shared verse
Stephanas1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 2 verses in 1 Thessalonians, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

1 Thessalonians

1 Thessalonians 1:7
As a result, you have become an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
1 Thessalonians 1:8
For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.

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Events here

Events the dataset sets at Achaia. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

no date
Mission to Corinth, 1&2 Thess WrittenActs 18:1–17
no date
Third Missionary Journey BeginsActs 18:24–28

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

The name originally of a narrow strip of territory in Greece, on the north-west of the Peloponnesus. Subsequently it was applied by the Romans to the whole Peloponnesus, now called the Morea, and the south of Greece. It was then one of the two provinces (Macedonia being the other) into which they divided the country when it fell under their dominion. It is in this latter enlarged meaning that the name is always used in the New Testament (Acts 18:12, 27; 19:21; [Rom. 15](/rom#Rom.15): 26; 16:5, etc.). It was at the time when Luke wrote the Acts of the Apostles under the proconsular form of government; hence the appropriate title given to Gallio as the “deputy,” i.e., proconsul, of Achaia (Acts 18:12).

In the Bible

1 Thessalonians

Events here

Dictionary

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