Place · Water
Adria
- ESV name
- Adriatic Sea
- Coordinates
- 42.4150, 16.3735
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
(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.
water
Events here
- AD 56Paul's Journey to Rome · Acts 27:1 – 28:31 · Aristarchus, Julius, Luke, Paul
- AD 57Paul is shipwrecked by a storm · Acts 27:13–44 · Aristarchus, Julius, Luke, Paul