- Ἀχαί̈α
- Ἀχαί̈α, ας, ἡ (Hdt. et al.; Joseph.) Achaia in NT the Rom. province created 146 B.C., including the most important parts of Greece, i.e. Attica, Boeotia (perh. Epirus) and the Peloponnese (Mommsen, Röm. Gesch. V 233ff) Ac 18:2 D, 12, 27; 19:21; 2 Cor 1:1; 11:10; 1 Th 1:7f. The country for its inhabitants, esp. the Christians living in it Ro 15:26; 16:5 v.l.; 1 Cor 16:15; 2 Cor 9:2.—JMarquardt, Röm. Staatsverw. I2 1881, 321ff; Pauly-W. I 1894, 190–98; RE VII 160ff; Kl. Pauly I, 32–38; Ramsay, Bearing 404f; Hahn, index.
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