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ACHAIA.—This name was originally applied to a strip of land on the N. coast of the Peloponnese. On annexing Greece and Macedonia as a province in b.c. 146, the Romans applied the name Achaia to the whole of that country. In b.c. 27 two provinces were formed, Macedonia and Achaia; and the latter included Thessaly, Ætolia, Acarnania, and some part of Epirus, with Eubœa and most of the Cyclades. It was governed in St. Paul’s time by a proconsul of the second grade, with headquarters at Corinth (Act_18:12). ‘Hellas’ (Act_20:2) is the native Greek name corresponding to the Roman ‘Achaia.’ There were Jewish settlements in this province, at Corinth, Athens, etc. (Act_17:17; Act_18:4; Act_18:7), and the work of St. Paul began amongst them and was carried on by Apollos (1 and 2 Cor. passim, Act_17:16 ff., Act_17:18; Act_19:1).
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