Apollonia
Apollonia [1]
ap -o -lō´ni -a ( Ἀπολλωνία , Apollōnı́a ): 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 ( Maritza ), 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, Historia Numorum , 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 Pollina (Leake, Northern Greece , III, 458; Cousinéry, Voyage dans la Macédoine , I, 115).
