BEREA
City of Macedonia, 80 km west of Thessaloniki, and 38 km from the sea, on the northern slope of the Mounts of Olympus.
The Jews there are praised for their nobility in searching the Scriptures to see if the things Paul announced to them were indeed so, and as a result of which many of them believed (Acts 17:10, 13; 20:4).
Sopater was from there.
It is now called “Kara Verria.”