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Apollonia
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or (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).
(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).
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.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Apollonia'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/apollonia.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
