Amphipolis
am-fip'-o-lis (Amphipolis): A town in Macedonia, situated on
the eastern bank of the Strymon (modern Struma or Karasu)
some three miles from its mouth, near the point where it
flows out of Lake Prasias or Cercinitis. It lay on a
terraced hill, protected on the North, West and South by the
river, on the East by a wall (Thuc. iv.102), while its ...
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(a city surrounded by the sea), a city of Macedonia, through
which Paul and Silas passed on their way from Philippi to
Thessalonica Ac 17:1 It was distant 33 Roman miles from
Philippi, to the southwest, and about three miles from the
sea. Its site is now occupied by a village called Neokhorio;
in Turkish Jeni-Keni, or "New Town."...
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city on both sides, a Macedonian city, a great Roman military station, through which
Paul and Silas passed on their way from Philippi to Thessalonica, a distance of 33
Roman miles from Philippi (Acts 17:1)....
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A Macedonian city, through which Paul and Silas passed, by the
Ignatian Way, in journeying from Philippi (33 Roman miles
distant) to Thessalonica (Acts 17:1). Their not staying there
may have been because there were few, if any, Jews in it: and
they hastened on to Thessalonica, "where was a synagogue of
Jews," affording the suitable starting p...
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Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia,
they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:...
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