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.
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
Place
Mysia
Name meaning: criminal; abominable (Hitchcock)
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Also in Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(land of beech trees) (Acts 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.
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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