an ancient city of Macedonia, S.W. of Pella, on the river Astraeus, a tributary of the Haliacmon. It is now known by the name of Boor. The Beroeans are commended in Scripture for their reception of the Gospel. There was another Beroea in Syria, called also Beroe, and by the inhabitants Berceia. It is supposed to be identical with the modern Aleppo, or Haleb, so called from Chalep, the name given to Beroea by the Byzantine writers. There was a third town of this name in Thrace, between Philippopolis and Nicopolis.