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Tarsus

Cilicia · today Tarsus

Paul’s hometown and a center of Stoic philosophy. Being a Roman citizen from Tarsus is what keeps him alive at several points in Acts.

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ANCIENT NAMES

  • Taršiš Biblical Hebrew
  • Ταρσός Tarsos Greek
  • Tarsisi Akkadian
  • Tarša Hittite

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Skip the map 15°E 20°E 25°E 30°E 35°E 40°E 45°E 50°E 28°N 32°N 36°N 40°N Straight Street STRAIGHT STREET Cilicia CILICIA Caesarea Caesarea Jerusalem Jerusalem Damascus Damascus Antioch Antioch Tarsus Tarsus 100 mi scriptoria.digital Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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city known location approximate debated 7 places · c. AD 30-62 · modern coastline: harbors have silted up over two thousand years · drag and zoom · Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

WITH CILICIA · ANTIOCH · CAESAREA · DAMASCUS AND 2 MORE, named in the same passages

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Map: Scriptoria, CC BY 4.0. Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0. Coast and rivers: Natural Earth, public domain. Relief: ETOPO 2022 (NOAA NCEI), public domain. The credits are in each sheet's footer.

Gate at Tarsus.

Gate at Tarsus.

PHOTO: Nedim Ardoğa CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikimedia Commons

DISTANCES IN A STRAIGHT LINE

  • Antioch ABOUT 85 MI (140 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE · 6 DAYS ON FOOT
  • Damascus ABOUT 250 MI (400 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE · 18 DAYS ON FOOT
  • Caesarea ABOUT 300 MI (490 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE
  • Jerusalem ABOUT 360 MI (570 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE

In a straight line, between the atlas's coordinates. On foot, at 30 km (19 mi) a day on a road 1.3 times longer than the line.

5 PASSAGES

COORDINATES 36.9130, 34.8921

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ON WIKIDATA · Q134287