The region was annexed by the Roman Republic in 146 BC following the sack of Corinth by the Roman general Lucius Mummius, who was awarded the surname " Achaicus " ('conqueror of Achaia'). Initially part of the Roman province of Macedonia, it was made into a …

Cities mentioned in the New Testament located within Achaia include Athens (Acts 17:15 - 16, 22, 18:1), the administrative center of the province named Corinth (Acts 18:1, 19:1, etc.), and Cenchrea (Acts 18:18, Romans 16:1, 27). Also located in this area is the famous city of Sparta that was known for its prowess in war.

Ancient Corinth was one of the largest and most important cities of Greece, with a population of 90,000 in 400 BC. [1] . The Romans demolished Corinth in 146 BC, built a new city in its place in 44 BC, and later made it the provincial capital of Greece.

Corinth became the capital of the Roman province of Achaia. In Roman Corinth, old temples were restored and enlarged, new shops and markets built, new water supplies developed, and many public buildings added (including three governmental buildings and an …

2022年1月4日 · The Roman capital of Achaia was Corinth, located on the southern end of the isthmus connecting the Peloponnesus with mainland Greece. Sometimes in the Bible, Achaia is called “Greece,” or is mentioned together with Macedonia to indicate all of modern-day Greece (e.g., Acts 19:21; Romans 16:5; 1 Corinthians 16:15; 2 Corinthians 11:10; 1 ...

2002年12月31日 · The geography of Achaia, and even the geography of that part of the Mediterranean, played a major role in ancient Corinth. Greece was divided between the mainland and the Peloponnesian peninsula, with a narrow isthmus connecting the two. Corinth was located just to the southwest of the isthmus, on the peninsula, overlooking the isthmus.

Capital city of the Rom. province of Achaia. 1. Topography. The city was one of the most strategically located in the ancient world. It was situated on a plateau overlooking the Isthmus of Corinth about two m. from the Gulf.

a-ka'-ya (Achaia): The smallest country in the Peloponnesus lying along the southern shore of the Corinthian Gulf, north of Arcadia and east of Elis. The original inhabitants were Ionians, but these were crowded out later by the Acheans, who came from the East.

Achaia (Ἀχαΐα) was, in the classical period, merely a strip of fertile coast-land stretching along the south of the Gulf of Corinth, from the river Larisus, which separated it from Elis, to the Sythas, which divided it from Sicyonia, while the higher mountains of Arcadia bounded it on the south.

It became the capital of the Roman province of Achaia in 27 B.C. Extensive rebuilding in the 1st century A.D. included the addition of a forum, large public baths, and an amphitheater. Under Roman patronage Corinth soon reclaimed and exceeded its earlier reputation as the Greek city most noted for luxury, vice, and decadence.