Dict: smith - ASIA

smith:

ASIA - A>@ - (orient). The passages in the New Testament where this word occurs are the following; kjv@Acts:2:9 kjv@Acts:6:9 kjv@Acts:16:6 ; 19:10,22,26-27; 20:4,16-18; 21:27; 27:2; kjv@Romans:16:5; kjv@1Corinthians:16:19; kjv@2Corinthians:1:8; kjv@2Timothy:1:15; kjv@1Peter:1:1; kjv@Revelation:1:4 kjv@Revelation:1:11) In all these it may be confidently stated that the word is used for a Roman province which embraced the western part of the peninsula of Asia Minor and of which Ephesus was the capital.

ASIARCHAE - A>@ - (chief of Asia) (Authorized Version; kjv@Acts:19:31)), officers chosen annually by the cities of that part of the province of Asia of which Ephesus was, under Roman government, the metropolis. They had charge of the public games and religious theatrical spectacles, the expenses of which they bore.