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Troas
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
or A maritime city of Mysia, in the northwest part of Asia Minor, situated on the Egean coast, at some distance south of the supposed site of ancient Troy. The adjacent region, including all the coast south of the Hellespont, is also called Troas, or the Troad. The city was a Macedonian and Roman colony of much promise, and was called Alexandria Troas. The Turks call its ruins Eski Stamboul, the old Constantinople. Its remains, in the center of a forest of oaks, are still grand and imposing. The apostle Paul was first at Troas for a short time in A. D. 52, and sailed thence into Macedonia, Acts 16:8-11 . At his second visit, in A. D. 57, he labored with success, 2 Corinthians 2:12-13 . At his third recorded visit he tarried but a week; at the close of which the miraculous raising of Eutychus to life took place, Acts 20:5-14 , A. D. 58. See also 2 Timothy 4:13 .
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Troas'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/t/troas.html. 1859.
