adramyttium Summary and Overview

a city of Asia Minor on the coast of Mysia, which in early times was called AEolis. The ship in which Paul embarked at Caesarea belonged to this city (Acts 27:2). He was conveyed in it only to Myra, in Lycia, whence he sailed in an Alexandrian ship to Italy. It was a rare thing for a ship to sail from any port of Israel direct for Italy. It still bears the name Adramyti, and is a place of some traffic.

named form Adramys, brother of Croesus king of Lydia, a seaport in the province of Asia [ASIA], situated on a bay of the Aegean Sea, about 70 miles north of Smyrna, in the district anciently called Aeolis, and also Mysia. See #Ac 16:7| [MITYLENE] #Ac 27:2| The modern Adramyti is a poor village.

ADRAMYT'TIUM , named from Adramys, brother of Croesus, a seaport town of Mysia, Acts 27:2-5, on a bay of the Ægean Sea north of Smyrna. It is now a poor village known as Adramyti.

A seaport in Mysia (Acts 27:2). Its gulf is opposite the isle Lesbos, on the Roman route between Troas and the Hellespont, and Pergames, Ephesus and Miletus. The centurion escorting Paul took an Adramyttian ship, as a vessel going the whole way from Israel to Italy was hard to find, and as it would bring them so far on their journey toward Rome, and in that coast they would be likely to find another ship to take them the rest of the way. At Myra in Lycia accordingly they found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy.