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But when the fourteenth night — Since they left Crete; was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria — That is, in the Adriatic sea: as the ancients called all that part of the Mediterranean sea which lay south of Italy.
The meaning of the term ‘Adria’ was the debatable point of the once famous controvert as to whether St. Paul suffered shipwreck on the Illyrian or the Sicilian Melita, i.e. on Meleda or Malta (see Melita).
Where is the "Adriatic Sea" (Acts 27:27)? Two thousand years ago, "Adriatic Sea" referred to the entire body of water east of Italy down to its southern tip. Today, "Adriatic Sea" refers to only the upper 2/3 of that body of water, with the lower 1/3 - between Italy on one side and Greece and southern Albania on the other - being referred to as ...
(ὁ Ἀδρίας [Westcott-Hort’s Greek TestamentἈδρίας], ‘the Adrias,’ Revised Version‘the [sea of] Adria’) The name was derived from the important Tuscan town of Atria, near the mouths of the Padus, and was originally (Herod. vi. 127, vii. 20, ix.
Adria ( ὁ Ἀδρίας [Westcott-Hort’s Greek Testament Ἀδρίας ], ‘the Adrias,’ Revised Version ‘the [sea of] Adria’) The name was derived from the important Tuscan town of Atria, near the mouths of the Padus, and was originally (Herod.
The Adriatic Sea is a name derived from the old Etruscan city Atria, situated near the mouth of the Po (Livy v0.330.7; Strabo v.214). At first the name Adria was only applied to the most northern part of the sea.
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It derives its name from the city Adria, in Cisalpine Gaul, on the river Po, now called Atri. The name Adriatic is now confined to the gulf lying between Italy on one side and the coasts of Dalmatia and Albania on the other (comp. Pliny, 3:16, 29).
