Syracuse & Rhegium
Acts
28:11-13
Sailing northward from Malta, Paul put in at Syracuse on. the island of Sicily and at Rhegium on the mainland of Italy.
Context: The most important city on the island of Sicily was Syracuse, which was a port on the island's southeastern coast. In the fifth century B.C., the army of Syracuse defeated the Athenians. At the end of the third century B.C. it came under Roman control, but remained the most important city in Sicily. Rhegium is a port on the "toe" of Italy, along the strait of Messina, which separates Italy from Sicily by a mere seven miles. Caesar Augustus settled some of the veterans of his army in the city in the early first century A.D.