Alexandria Troas (" Alexandria of the Troad ", modern ) is an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, a little south of Tenedos ( modern Bozcaada ).

In the 10th century Troas is given as a suffragan of Cyzicus and distinct from the famous Troy ( Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, 552 ; Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani, 64 ); it is not known when the city was destroyed and the diocese disappeared.

There is similar evidence that Luke resided in Troas, the province which included the ruins of ancient Troy, in that he writes in Acts in the third person about Paul and his travels until they get to Troas, where he switches to the first person plural.

Luke never stated, however, that he lived in Troas, and this is the only evidence that he did.

The Eucharist, which " is recorded as celebrated by the early Christian community at Jerusalem and by St. Paul on his visit to Troas ", is held to have been instituted by Christ.

One chapter later, a Gaius from Derbe, is again named as one of Paul's seven traveling companions who waited for him at Troas ( Acts 20: 4 ).

The Troad ( or ) or Troas () is the historical name of the Biga peninsula ( modern Turkish: Biga Yarımadası, ) in the northwestern part of Anatolia, Turkey.

The western part of the Biga Peninsula where ancient Troy is stiuated was called Troas.

It has also been associated with some of the Sea Peoples such as Tursha and Tyrsenoi, with the river Tiras ( Dniester ), and sometimes with the Anatolian region of Troas, dating to the later 13th century BC.

He also refers to Troas when he asks his fellow worker Timothy out of Ephesus, to get his coat there.

According to Strabo, this site was first called Sigeia ; around 306 BC Antigonus refounded the city as the much-expanded Antigonia Troas by settling the people of five other towns in Sigeia, including the once influential city of Neandria.

Constantine considered making Troas the capital of the Roman Empire.

The most recent hierarch, His Grace Bishop Savas ( Zembillas ) of Troas, served 2002-2011.

* Feuser, Stefan, Der Hafen von Alexandria Troas ( Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2009 ) ( Asia Minor Studien, 63 ).

He was ordained and went with Paul on his journeys through Phrygia, Galatia, Mysia, Troas, Philippi, Veria, and Corinth.

* The cities of Antigonia Troas ( later known as Alexandria Troas ) and Antigoneia ( later known as Nicaea ) are founded by Antigonus I Monophthalmus.

Cyzicus was the leading city of Northern Mysia as far as Troas.

The Book of Acts in the Christian Bible records that the Apostle Paul, on his second missionary journey outside of Palestine, sailed from Troas to Samothrace and spent one night there on his way to Macedonia.

* Troas — An Earthlike planet featured in the stories " Sucker Bait " by Isaac Asimov and " Question and Answer " by Poul Anderson.

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* The science fiction novellas " Sucker Bait " by Isaac Asimov and " Question and Answer " by Poul Anderson take place on Troas, a world within M13.

Silvanus was named by him bishop of Philippolis, and afterwards removed to Alexandria Troas.

Paul visited Troas.

He was one of the first to write of seeing the ruins of Troy, Alexandria Troas, and Mycenae.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.