Mysia
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(Acts 16:7, 8)—a region in the northwest of Asia Minor, bordered on the south by Lydia and Ionia, on the east by Bithynia and Phrygia, and on the north and west washed by the Hellespont and the Aegean Sea. Among the cities of Mysia were famed: Assos, Troas, Pergamum, and Lampsacus. Besides the border mountain of Olympus, in Mysia is found the well-known Mount Ida. Mysia is even now considered a fertile and beautiful land. Mysia was the setting of Homer’s Iliad and of the battle at the Granicus (334 B.C.).
Christianity flourished here from early times of the Christian era. The name Mysia itself is said to derive from the beech trees, which grew here in abundance and were called “mysoi” by the Lydians.