Places of the Bible
Adria
Water · water
What happened here
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Paul's Journey to Rome · 56 AD
- Paul is shipwrecked by a storm · 57 AD
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
(Acts 27:27; R.V., “the sea of Adria”), the Adriatic Sea, including in Paul’s time the whole of the Mediterranean lying between Crete and Sicily. It is the modern Gulf of Venice, the Mare Superum_ of the Romans, as distinguished from the Mare Inferum_ or Tyrrhenian Sea.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 1 verse
- Acts
- 27:27
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.