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The name originally of a narrow strip of territory in [[Greece(EBD)|Greece]], on the north-west of the [[wikipedia:Peloponnesus|Peloponnesus]]. Subsequently it was applied by the [[wikipedia:Ancient Rome|Romans ]] to the whole Peloponnesus, now called the [[wikipedia:Morea|Morea]], and the south of Greece. It was then one of the two provinces ([[wikipedia:Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia ]] being the other) into which they divided the country when it fell under their dominion. It is in this latter enlarged meaning that the name is always used in the [[New Testament (EBD)|New Testament]] (Acts 18:12, 27; 19:21; Rom. 15: 26; 16:5, etc.). It was at the time when [[Luke (EBD)|Luke ]] wrote the [[Acts of the Apostles (EBD)|Acts of the Apostles ]] under the proconsular form of government; hence the appropriate title given to [[wikipedia:Gallio |Gallio]] as the "deputy," i.e., [[wikipedia:proconsul|proconsul]], of Achaia (Acts 18:12).

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