Syria · Port
Seleucia
Also called Seleucia Pieria
Identified site. Scholarly consensus identifies this site.
- Ancient name
- Seleucia
- Modern location
- Ruins of Seleucia Pieria, near Samandağ · Turkey
- Region
- Syria
- Location
- Identified site
Editorial summary
The seaport from which Barnabas and Saul sailed to Cyprus at the start of the first journey.
What happened here
1Sailing for Cyprus
Barnabas and Saul went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.
People here
2On these journeys
Scripture
Nearby in the atlas
Location certainty
Scholarly consensus identifies this site.
- Coordinates
- 36.1240° N, 35.9220° E