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Cities

15 cities with their own page, and other towns from our maps.

Every city page on the site, grouped by land and then by its main region. Some cities belonged to more than one region over time; each city page shows them all.

Mesopotamia

Assyria

  • NinevehThe capital of Assyria, addressed by Jonah and Nahum.

Babylonia

  • BabylonThe great city on the Euphrates, capital of the empire that destroyed Jerusalem.

Canaan & Israel

Benjamin

  • JerichoThe oasis city whose capture opens Joshua’s conquest.

Galilee

  • NazarethA small village in Galilee where Jesus grew up.

Israel (northern kingdom)

  • SamariaThe capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, later a Roman city.

Judah

  • BethlehemThe town of David’s family and, in the Gospels, the birthplace of Jesus.
  • JerusalemThe city David made Israel’s capital and Solomon’s temple made its center of worship.

Neighboring Nations

Aram (Syria)

  • DamascusThe capital of Aram and the city of Paul’s conversion.

Mediterranean World

Achaia

  • Athens inferredThe cultural center of Greece, where Paul spoke to the Areopagus.
  • CorinthA Roman colony in the province of Achaia, on the narrow Isthmus between two seas, where Paul stayed a year and six months and later wrote to the church.

Asia (Roman province)

  • EphesusThe great port city of Asia where Paul stayed three years and one of the seven churches of Revelation.

Italy

  • RomeThe capital of the empire, where Paul was taken and where the early church grew.

Macedonia

  • PhilippiA Roman colony in Macedonia and the first European city where Paul preached.
  • ThessalonicaThe capital of Macedonia and a major port on the Via Egnatia.

Syria (Roman province)

  • Antioch on the Orontes inferredThe Syrian city where believers were first called Christians and Paul’s journeys began.

Other places on our maps

These towns are on our maps but do not have their own page yet.