Bible Dictionaries
Chios
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
Acts 20:14-15; Acts 20:21. Now Scio, an island of the Archipelago, near which Paul passed going from Mitylene, in Lesbos, to Samos, between which two islands it lay, 32 miles long, from 8 miles to 18 miles wide; mountainous, beautiful, and fertile. Its modern inhabitants suffered severely in the war of independence.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Chios'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​c/chios.html. 1949.