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Edremit, Balikesir
Edremit is a district in Balikesir Province, Turkey, as well as the central city of that district, on the west coast of Turkey, not far from the Greek island Lesbos.
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Adramyttium
Adramyttium (Grieks: Ἀδραμύ(τ)τ(ε)ιον, moderne naam Edremit) was een historische stad in Klein-Azië, gelegen aan de kust van Mysia. In de vroege Griekse Oudheid was de naam van de stad Aeolis.
Nu is de stad Turks, en is een regionaal vakantiecentrum en verkeersknooppunt in de provincie Balikesir.
Adramyttium wordt terloops vernoemd in het Nieuwe Testament (Hand., 27: 2): vóór zijn vertrek naar Italië gaat Paulus aan boord van een schip uit Adramyttium dat hem naar Sidon zal brengen …
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ADRAMYTTIUM
• A city of Mysia Ac 27:2.
Nave's Topical Bible, by Orville J. Nave. This text is in the Public Domain.
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Adramyttium
named form Adramys, brother of Croesus king of Lydia, a seaport in the province of Asia See: Asia, situated on a bay of the Aegean Sea, about 70 miles north of Smyrna, in the district anciently called Aeolis, and also Mysia. See (Acts 16:7) See: Mitylene (Acts 27:2) The modern Adramyti is a poor village.
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Adramyttium
a city of Asia Minor on the coast of Mysia, which in early times was called AEolis. The ship in which Paul embarked at Caesarea belonged to this city (Acts 27:2). He was conveyed in it only to Myra, in Lycia, whence he sailed in an Alexandrian ship to Italy. It was a rare thing for a ship to sail from any port of Palestine direct for Italy. It still bears the name Adramyti, and is a place of some traffic.
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