Perga

Perga was the capital of Pamphylia, on the coast of Asia Minor. Paul and

Related Topics:
Pamphylia - Asia - Paul

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his companions landed at this place from Cyprus on their first

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missionary journey (Acts 13:13, 14), and here Mark the Evangelist forsook the

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party and returned to Jerusalem. Some time afterwards Paul and

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Barnabas again visited this city and "preached the word"

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(14:25). It stood on the banks of the river Cestrus, some 7

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miles from its mouth, and was a place of some commercial

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importance. It is now a ruin, called Eski Kalessi.

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