16:1Ĭenchrea was visited by Paul and his companions after nearly eighteen months of ministry in Corinth, during the Second Mission Journey. Posted on AugJAuthor Randall Smith Categories Acts, Bible studies, Travel and Bible Lands Notes Places in Acts – Cenchrea – Acts 18:18 Rom. It became a holding of the Venetians by 1172 CE and a centerpiece of the maritime “empire” of the Genoese from 1346 to 1566. The once prosperous island farms broke down until the Byzantine rulers discovered its value in agriculture. 20: 25).Ĭhios lost many inhabitants during the Early Byzantine period, as pirates ran much of the legitimate trade of the eastern Aegean away. This particular journey included stops where he strengthened, instructed and warned the believers in different places as well as bidding them farewell, sensing that he would not see them again (cp. This reference to the journey should probably be translated “along the channel of Chios” rather than “against Chios”. Paul sailed by Chios on his way to address the Ephesian elders at Miletus (and eventually Jerusalem for the beginning of Pentecost – Acts 20:15). Though under Roman government, the port was quite independent for much of the Roman period. The Persian onslaught of 493 BCE ended the prosperity, and the island periodically changed “masters” from Athens to Macedonia and eventually to Rome. By the C6th BCE, the island enjoyed prosperity and was the first to engage in the slave trade. In C8th BCE, the island joined the Ioanian confederacy (with Samos and several Asia Minor cities). The island was settled by Ionians in antiquity, and field excavation has yielded evidence of some settlement activity extending to the C19th BCE. The lentisk is used in the production of the alcoholic “mastika”, and is the base of a resin used in chewing gum, cakes, oriental syrups and deserts. The island is well watered, with sufficient winter rains to produce the celebrated harvests of citrus fruit, mulberries, grapes, cotton, tobacco, vegetables and lentisk (also called mastic tree). Formed by volcanic flow, the highest point in the island is in the north at Mt. It is about twelve miles west of Smyrna across the narrow channel. The island measures near thirty kilometers in length (north to south), and varies between ten and twenty kilometers in width. The island of Chios (in the Aegean Sea) is only five miles (8 km.) off the western Turkish coast south of the island of Lesbos.
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