BERCÆA, in Ancient Geography, a city of Macedonia, to the south of Edessa or Ægæ, and south-east of Cyrtus. The people are commended in Scripture for their reception of the Gospel. There was another Bercæa in Syria, called also Beroe, and by the inhabitants Beroëa. It is supposed to be identical with the modern Aleppo, which appears to have been so called from Chalep, the name given to Bercæa by Nicetas, Nicephorus, and Zonaras.