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BEROEA

Volume 3 · 107 words · 1815 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a noble city of Macedonia, to the south of Edessa, or Aegae, and southeast of Cyrus. The people are commended in Scripture for their reception of the Gospel on a fair and impartial examination.—Another Beroea, of Syria (Stephanus); called also Beroe, and by the inhabitants Be-roea. It was the standing tradition for some ages, that it is the modern Aleppo; called Chalep in Nicetas, Nicerhorus, and Zonaras; from which it is supposed the present appellation Aleppo is derived; distant 90 miles from the Levant sea and the port of Scanderoon, and about 100 miles west of the Euphrates. E. Long. 36.0. N. Lat. 36.30.