The Places of 1 Thessalonians
1 Thessalonians names 7 places; Macedonia, Achaia and Athens most often. 7 of them can be put on a map, 7 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.
- Located with confidence
- Location uncertain
- Mountain
Every place in 1 Thessalonians
The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn.
| Place | References | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macedonia | 1:7, 1:8, 4:10 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Achaia | 1:7, 1:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Athens | 3:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Greece | 1:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Judea | 2:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Philippi | 2:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Thessalonica | 1:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.