mysia Summary and Overview

a province in the north-west of Asia Minor. On his first voyage to Europe (Acts 16:7, 8) Paul passed through this province and embarked at its chief port Troas.

(land of beech trees) #Ac 16:7,8| was the region about the frontier of the provinces of Asia and Bithynia. The term is evidently used in an ethnological, not a political, sense.

MY'SIA (beech region ?), a province in the north-western angle of Asia Minor, and separated from Europe by the Propontis and the Hellespont, having Lydia on the south, Bithynia on the east, and including the Troad. Mysia was anciently celebrated for its fertility, and it is at this day a beautiful and fertile country, but poorly tilled. Acts 16:7-8; Acts 20:5.

On the frontier of the provinces Asia and Bithynia. W. of Bithynia, E. of the Aegean, S. of the sea Propontis or Marmora, N. of Lydia. The site of Troy was in it originally, but not in Paul's time for he had to pass by Mysia to reach the Troad (Acts 16:7-8). On his second missionary journey he was not suffered by the Spirit to preach in Asia or Bithynia. He passed through Mysia, without staying, on to Macedonia. Assos and Adramyttium were in Mysia. The island Lesbos was opposite.