Attalia

 

Acts

14:25-26 

As Paul and Barnabas completed the initial phase of their work in Asia, they returned to Perga near the coast. They boarded a ship at the nearby port of Attalia, which took them back to Antioch in Syria and then to Jerusalem for one of the church's most important assemblies.

Context: Attalia was the chief port of the region of Pamphylia. It was founded by a king of Pergamum, the city that dominated western Asia Minor before the Roman conquests. The city had towers and defensive walls. Its its harbor could be closed with a chain.

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