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Alexandria Troas

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alexandria Troas , ancient Greek seaport city, Mysia, NW Asia Minor, called Troas in the Bible. It was important under the Greeks and Romans. Author not available, ALEXANDRIA TROAS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Troas
...was involved in various struggles to control the straits. Troas was the scene of the events of the Iliad and was an ancient...yielded to archaeologists a wealth of antiquities. For the Troas of the Bible, see Alexandria Troas . Read more
Troas
Troas A port on the NW coast of Asia Minor which in NT times had the status of a Roman colony. Strictly, the place was Alexandria Troas, the second name being added because it was near the...possible capital city for the empire. Paul had a vision at Troas in which a man from Macedonia invited him to ... Read more

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Beating the competitors.(History in the News)(corporal punishment for Olympic athletes)(Brief article)
; A Roman training manual discovered at Alexandria Troas in modern-day Turkey records that corporal punishment should be administered to Olympic athletes who were failing in competition... Read more
Footsteps of Paul; Old stones, new truths When Paul set out from Jerusalem on his mission to spread the word about Jesus 2,000 years ago, he fostered a religion he wouldn't recognize today.(NEWS)
; ...Apostle Paul. They are standing at the ancient port of Alexandria Troas. Paul came here more than once, but the port now is...tides, winds and shipping records from the millennia. Troas is important because Paul left from this port to go... Read more
Mighty Aphrodite is rite for spring.(Travel)
; ...in antiquity: ships sailing into harbors that are now broad alluvial plans. Many cities (Ephesus, Miletus, Teos, Alexandria Troas) declined when their harbors silted up. Another, Heracleia, was left marooned inland when silt from the Maeander... Read more
Pictorial Library of Bible Lands
; ...Medeba Plateau, Moab and Edom, Petra. CD 7 Egypt: Abu Simbel, Alexandria, Aswan, Cairo, the Cairo Museum, Dashur, the Giza pyramids...Smyrna, the Manisa Museum, the Smyrna Museum, Tarsus, Thyatira, Troas and Apollo Smintheurn, Troy. CD 9 Greece: Amphipolis, Argos... Read more

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