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Ἀχαΐα

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French (Bailly abrégé)

contract. de Ἀχαιΐα;
ας (ἡ) :
l’Achaïe :
1 contrée du Péloponnèse sur le golfe de Corinthe;
2 partie de la Thessalie, appelée aussi Phthiotide;
3 la province romaine d’Achaïe, càd la Grèce sans la Macédoine.
Étymologie: Ἀχαιός.

English (Strong)

of uncertain derivation; Achaia (i.e. Greece), a country of Europe: Achaia.

English (Thayer)

(WH Ἀχαΐα (see Iota)), Ἀχαΐας, ἡ, Achaia;
1. in a restricted sense, the maritime region of northern Peloponnesus.
2. in a broader sense, from 146 B.C.> on (yet see Dict. of Geog. under the word), a Roman province embracing all Greece except Thessaly. So in the N. T.: B. D. under the word.)