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<p> '''''ap''''' -'''''o''''' -'''''lō´ni''''' -'''''a''''' ( Ἀπολλωνία , <i> '''''Apollōnı́a''''' </i> ): A town in Mygdonia, a district in Macedonia. It was situated a little to the south of Lake Bolbe, on the Via Egnatia, the great [[Roman]] road leading from the coast of the Adriatic to the river Hebrus ( <i> Maritza </i> ), one of the main military and commercial highways of the empire: it lay between [[Amphipolis]] and Thessalonica, a day's journey (Livy xlv.28) or about 30 Roman miles from the former and 38 from the latter. The foundation of the town may perhaps be attributed to about 432 bc; in any case, coins are extant which attest its existence in the 4th century bc (Head, <i> Historia Numorum </i> , 181). Paul and [[Silas]] passed through the town on their journey from [[Philippi]] to Thessalonica, but do not appear to have stayed there ( Acts 17:1 ). The name seems to have survived in the modern <i> Pollina </i> (Leake, <i> Northern [[Greece]] </i> , III, 458; Cousinéry, <i> Voyage dans la Macédoine </i> , I, 115). </p> | |||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15361" /> == | |||
<p> A city of Macedonia, situated between [[Amphipolis]] and Thessalonica, about a day's journey on foot from the former place, Acts 17:1 . </p> | |||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30355" /> == | |||
Acts 17:1 <p> </p> | |||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34458" /> == | |||
<p> A city of Macedonia. Paul and [[Silas]] passed through it on their way to [[Thessalonica]] from [[Philippi]] and [[Amphipolis]] ( Acts 17:1). in Mygdonia, 80 miles from Amphipolis, 37 from Thessalonica. </p> | |||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_38515" /> == | |||
Acts 17:1 <p> </p> | |||
== Hitchcock's Bible Names <ref name="term_44814" /> == | |||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49474" /> == | |||
<p> <strong> APOLLONIA </strong> ( Acts 17:1 ). Paul and [[Silas]] passed through this town on the way from [[Amphipolis]] to Thessalonica. It is known that it was on the important Egnatian road which ran between Dyrrhachium (mod. <em> Durazzo </em> ) and Thessalonica, but its exact site has not yet been discovered. It was about half-way between Amphipolis and Thessalonica, and lay between the rivers Axius and Strymon. </p> <p> A. Souter. </p> | |||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_54909" /> == | |||
<p> ( Ἀπολλωνία) </p> <p> A town of Mygdonia in Macedonia, S. of Lake Bolbe (Athen. viii. 334), and N. of the Chalcidian mountains. It lay on the <i> Via Egnatia </i> , and St. Paul ‘passed through’ [[Amphipolis]] and [[Apollonia]] on his way from [[Philippi]] to [[Thessalonica]] ( Acts 17:1). The intermediate towns were probably remembered by him as resting-places. According to the <i> Antonine [[Itinerary]] </i> , Apollonia was 37 [[Roman]] miles from Amphipolis, and 37 from Thessalonica. Leake identifies it with the modern village of Pollina. </p> <p> J. Strahan. </p> | |||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_64727" /> == | |||
<p> City of Macedonia, in the district of Mygdonia, some 28 miles from [[Amphipolis]] and 35 from Thessalonica, through which Paul and [[Silas]] passed. Acts 17:1 . </p> | |||
== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69658" /> == | |||
<p> [[Apollonia]] ( ap-pol-lo'ni-a), belonging to Apollo. The name of several places in [[Europe]] and Asia, of which Apollonia in [[Illyria]] was the most celebrated. But the Apollonia through which Paul passed, Acts 17:1, was a city of Macedonia, about 36 miles east of Thessalonica, and 30 miles southwest of Amphipolis. </p> | |||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71398" /> == | |||
<p> Apollo'nia. (belonging to Apollo). A city of Macedonia, through which Paul and [[Silas]] passed in their way from [[Philippi]] and [[Amphipolis]] to Thessalonica. Acts 17:1. According to the Antonine Itinerary, it was distant 30 [[Roman]] miles from Amphipolis and 37 Roman miles from Thessalonica. </p> | |||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_771" /> == | |||
<p> '''''ap''''' -'''''o''''' -'''''lō´ni''''' -'''''a''''' ( Ἀπολλωνία , <i> '''''Apollōnı́a''''' </i> ): A town in Mygdonia, a district in Macedonia. It was situated a little to the south of Lake Bolbe, on the Via Egnatia, the great [[Roman]] road leading from the coast of the Adriatic to the river Hebrus ( <i> Maritza </i> ), one of the main military and commercial highways of the empire: it lay between [[Amphipolis]] and Thessalonica, a day's journey (Livy xlv.28) or about 30 Roman miles from the former and 38 from the latter. The foundation of the town may perhaps be attributed to about 432 bc; in any case, coins are extant which attest its existence in the 4th century bc (Head, <i> Historia Numorum </i> , 181). Paul and [[Silas]] passed through the town on their journey from [[Philippi]] to Thessalonica, but do not appear to have stayed there ( Acts 17:1 ). The name seems to have survived in the modern <i> Pollina </i> (Leake, <i> Northern [[Greece]] </i> , III, 458; Cousinéry, <i> Voyage dans la Macédoine </i> , I, 115). </p> | |||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15090" /> == | |||
<p> Apollo´nia, a city of Macedonia, in the province of Mygdonia, situated between [[Amphipolis]] and Thessalonica, thirty [[Roman]] miles from the former, and thirty-six from the latter. St. Paul passed through Amphipolis and [[Apollonia]] in his way to [[Thessalonica]] ( Acts 17:1). </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_20713" /> == | |||
<p> ( Ἀπολλωνία , from Apollo) , a city of Macedonia, in the province of Mygdonia (Plin. 4:17), situated between [[Amphipolis]] and Thessalonica, thirty [[Roman]] miles from the former, and thirty-six from the latter ( Itiner. Anton. p. 320, 330; Itin. Hieros. p. 605; Tab. Peuting.) . It was south of the lake Bolbe and north of the Chalcidian mountains ( Athen. 8, 334). According to [[Stephen]] of Byzantium, it was founded by a colony of Corinthians and Corcyrians. The [[Apostle]] Paul passed through Amphipolis and [[Apollonia]] on his way to [[Thessalonica]] ( Acts 17:1; see Conybeare and Howson's Life and [[Epistles]] of St. Paul, 1, 320, 321). It must not be confounded with a noted Apollonia in [[Illyria]] (see Kype, Obs. Sacr. 2, 81 sq.). The city here spoken of was situated on the "Egnatian Way" in the interior of the district of Chalcidice (Scylax, p. 27; Xen. Hist. Gr. 5,2). The ruins are called Pollina (Cramer's Anc. Gr. 1, 264). </p> <p> ( Ἀπολλωνία, a frequent [[Greek]] name of cities, probably given in this case by one of the Seleucidae), a town of Palestine, between [[Caesarea]] and [[Joppa]] (Stephen of Byz.; Ptol. 5,16; Pliny, 5,14; Peut. Tab.) , one of those on the sea-shore taken by the Jews under [[Alexander]] [[Jannaeus]] (Joseph. Ant. 13, 15, 4), and afterward repaired by [[Gabinius]] (Joseph. War, 1, 8, 4). It is now Arsuf, a deserted village at the mouth of the Nahr Arsuf (Irby and Mangles, Trav. p. 189; Robinson, Research. 3, 46; Chesney, Expedition, 1, 490), a place famous under the Crusaders (Wilken, Kreuzz. 2, 17, 39, 102; 4:416; 7:325, 400, 425), by whom it was confounded with [[Antipatris]] (Ritter, Erdk. 16, 590). </p> <p> a martyr of Alexandria, suffered with Metra, Quinta, and Serapion, in the year 249, when she was seized, and some one by a violent blow on the face knocked out many of her teeth; whence, in the Middle Ages, she was held to be the patroness against the toothache. Soon she was brought before the burning pile, and, on being asked to recant, reflected a moment, and then leaped into the fire. She is commemorated in the Roman [[Church]] on Feb. 9. Eusebius, Ch. Hist. 6, 41; Landon, Eccl. Dict. 1, 450. </p> | |||
==References == | |||
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<ref name="term_15361"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/apollonia Apollonia from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_30355"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/apollonia Apollonia from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_34458"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/apollonia Apollonia from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_38515"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/apollonia Apollonia from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_44814"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hitchcock-s-bible-names/apollonia Apollonia from Hitchcock's Bible Names]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_49474"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/apollonia Apollonia from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_54909"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-new-testament/apollonia Apollonia from Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_64727"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/apollonia Apollonia from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_69658"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/people-s-dictionary-of-the-bible/apollonia Apollonia from People's Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_71398"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/apollonia Apollonia from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_771"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/apollonia Apollonia from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_15090"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/kitto-s-popular-cyclopedia-of-biblial-literature/apollonia Apollonia from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_20713"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/apollonia Apollonia from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | |||
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