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Seleucia

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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Seleu´cia, a city of Syria, situated west of Antioch, on the sea-coast, near the mouth of the Orontes; sometimes called Seleucia Pieria, from the neighboring Mount Pierus: and also Seleucia ad Mare, in order to distinguish it from several other cities of the same name, all of them denominated from Seleucus Nicanor. Paul and Barnabas on their first journey embarked at this port for Cyprus ().

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Seleucia'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​s/seleucia.html.
 
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