# Alexandria

Egypt · today Alexandria

Intellectual center of the ancient world and home of the largest known library. Apollos, who comes from here, is described as eloquent and well versed in the Scriptures.

## Ancient names

- Alexandreia: Greek

Source: Pleiades, CC BY 3.0 (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727070).

Photo: https://scriptoria.digital/_fotos/i70a752.jpg (GT1976, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2005-03-30_Urlaub_Aegypten_(071).jpg).

## Passages

- **Acts 6:9** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/6/9
- **Acts 18:24-28** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/18/24
- **Acts 18:24** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/18/24
- **Acts 27:6** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/27/6
- **Acts 28:11** (mention) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/28/11

## Coordinates

31.1825, 29.8965

## Straight-line distances

- **Cyrene**: about 480 mi (780 km) in a straight line
- **Ephesus**: about 490 mi (790 km) in a straight line
- **Jerusalem**: about 320 mi (510 km) in a straight line

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/alexandria
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87
- Geography: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0 (https://www.openbible.info/geo/).
- Text license: Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).