Achaia

A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | 328 words | Copyright

Achaia The southern part of Greece made into a province by the Romans in 27 BCE. In the time (5th cent. BCE) of the historian Herodotus the name covered the area of Thessaly. When Paul visited the capital, Corinth, the province was controlled by the Roman senate, who appointed Junius Gallio as the proconsul (Acts 18: 12).

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