Troas in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
Alexandria Troas, now Eshki Stamboul, "old Constantinople."
A city of Mysia, S. of ancient Troy, opposite the island
Tenedos. The country was called the Troad. Antigonus built
and Lysimachus enlarged. Troas. It was the chief port
between Macedonia and Asia Minor. The roads to the interior
were good. Suetonius says Julius Caesar designed to
establish there the seat of his empire (Caesar, 79);
Augustus and Constantine meditated the same project. Roman
sentiment attracted them to Troas, the alleged seat from
whence Aeueas, the fabled progenitor of Rome's founder,
originally migrated. The rains are large, and the harbour
still traceable, a basin 400 ft. by 200 ft. Here on his
second missionary tour Paul saw the vision of the man of
Macedon praying, "come over and help us" (Acts 16:8-12).
During his next missionary tour Paul rested a while
in his northward journey from Ephesus, hoping to meet Titus
(2 Corinthians 2:12-13). On his return from this his first
gospel preaching in Europe, he met at Troas those who went
before him front Philippi; he stayed at T. seven days, and
here restored to life Eutychus who had fallen from the third
loft, being overwhelmed with sleep during Paul's long
sermon: a reproof of carelessness and drowsiness in church
on the one hand, and of long and late preaching on the other
(Acts 20:5-13). Here after his first imprisonment he left
his cloak, books, and parchments in Carpus' house (2 Timothy
4:13). Troas had then the jus Italicum. Beautiful coins of
Troas are extant, the oldest bearing the head of Apollo
Sminthius. The walls enclose a rectangle, one mile from E.
to W. and one mile from N. to S.
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