Thessalonica
After the fall of the kingdom of Macedon in 168 BC, Thessalonica became a city of the Roman Republic. It grew to be an important trade-hub located on the Via Egnatia, the Roman road connecting Byzantium (later Constantinople), with Dyrrhachium (now Durres in Albania), and facilitating trade between Europe and Asia. The city became the capital of on...
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thes-a-lo-ni'-ka (Thessalonike, ethnic Thessalonikeus):
1. Position and Name:
One of the chief towns of Macedonia from Hellenistic times
down to the present day. It lies in 40 degrees 40 minutes
North latitude, and 22 degrees 50 minutes East longitude, at
the northernmost point of the Thermaic Gulf (Gulf of
Salonica), a short distance to the Ea...
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(A city of the Macedonia area)
-Paul visits
Ac 17:1; Php 4:16
-People of, persecute Paul
Ac 17:5-8,11,13
-Men of, accompany Paul
Ac 20:4; 27:2
-Paul writes to Christians in
1Th 1:1; 2Th 1:1
-Demas goes to
2Ti 4:10...
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The original name of this city was Therma; and that part of
the Macedonian shore on which it was situated retained
through the Roman period the designation of the Thermaic
Gulf. Cassander the son of Antipater rebuilt and enlarged
Therma, and named it after his wife Thessalonica, the sister
of Alexander the Great. The name ever since, under var...
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a large and populous city on the Thermaic bay. It was the
capital of one of the four Roman districts of
Macedonia, and was
ruled by a praetor. It was named after Thessalonica,
the wife of
Cassander, who built the city. She was so called by
her father,
Philip, because he first heard of her birth on the
day of his
gaining a victory over the ...
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A town of Macedonia on the Thermaic gulf, now the gulf of
Saloniki. Therma was its original name, which Cossander
changed into Thessalonica in honour of his wife, Philip's
daughter. It rises from the end of the basin at the head of
the gulf up the declivity behind, presenting a striking
appearance from the sea. After the battle of Pydna
Thess...
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For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world,
and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus
unto Dalmatia....
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And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning
to sail by the coasts of Asia; [one] Aristarchus, a Macedonian
of Thessalonica, being with us....
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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they
received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the
scriptures daily, whether those things were so....
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