(Acts 27:27; R.V., “the sea of Adria”), the Adriatic Sea, including in Paul’s time the whole of the Mediterranean lying between Crete and Sicily. It is the modern Gulf of Venice, the Mare Superum_ of the Romans, as distinguished from the Mare Inferum_ or Tyrrhenian Sea.
Water
Adria
- Today
- water
- Location
- 42.415°N, 16.373°E
- Mentioned
- 1 verse
About Adria
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
What happened here
- AD 57Paul is shipwrecked by a stormActs 27:13–44
Every mention
Acts
27:27
Places: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0), with locations from OpenBible.info. Many ancient sites are uncertain.