Places of the Bible
Syracuse
City
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 arrives at Rome · 57 AD
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A city on the south-east coast of Sicily, where Paul landed and remained three days when on his way to Rome (Acts 28:12). It was distinguished for its magnitude and splendour. It is now a small town of some 13,000 inhabitants.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 1 verse
- Acts
- 28:12
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.