Bible Encyclopedias
Adriatic Sea

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

Adriatic Sea (Acts 27:27). This name is now confined to the gulf lying between Italy on one side, and the coasts of Dalmatia and Albania on the other. But in St. Paul's time it extended to all that part of the Mediterranean between Crete and Sicily. This fact is of importance, as relieving us from the necessity of finding the island of Melita on which Paul was shipwrecked, in the present Adriatic gulf; and consequently removing the chief difficulty in the way of the identification of that island with the present Malta.

 

 

 

 

Bibliography Information
Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Adriatic Sea'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​a/adriatic-sea.html.