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Berea

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Berea, in the Bible

Berea or Beroea (both: bērē`ə).

1 Town near Jerusalem, mentioned in First Maccabees. It is probably identical with Beeroth Beeroth , in the Bible.

1 City important as a road station, now Bira (West Bank).

2 Same as Bene-jaakan.
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2 See Véroia Véroia or Veria , town (1991 pop. 38,713), capital of Imathía prefecture, N Greece, in Macedonia. It is a lignite-mining and textile-milling center. In ancient times the town was known as Berea or Beroea.
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, Macedonia.

3 See Aleppo Aleppo or Alep , Arabic Haleb, city (1993 est. pop. 1,500,000), capital of Aleppo governorate, NW Syria. It is a commercial center located in a semidesert region where irrigation is used to grow grains, cotton, and fruit.
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, Syria.


Berea, city, United States

Berea (bərē`ə), city (1990 pop. 19,051), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; settled 1809, inc. as a city 1930. Berea is a residential community with a number of industries, such as plastics, alloy, and light engineering. Baldwin-Wallace College is there.


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From the shore floated sweet spicy odours that always remind me of hymns and missionaries, and in the windows of the houses on the Berea sparkled a hundred lights.
 
 
 
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