Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), B, Baucis, Beroea

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Beroea

（Βέροια).

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A large city of Macedonia, south of Edessa, and of great antiquity. Reference should be made to the Acts of the Apostles,

Coin of Beroea, in Syria, with the Head of Trajan.

xvii. 11.

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A town of Syria, now Aleppo or Haleb, near Antioch, and enlarged by Seleucus Nicator, who named it Beroea after the town in Macedon. In the Old Testament it is called Chelbon.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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