Mysia

Mysia was a province in the northwest corner of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), bordered by the Propontis (Sea of Marmara) and Hellespont to the north, Bithynia to the northeast, Lydia to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west. Its principal cities included Troas on the coast, Pergamum in the south, and Assos. Paul passed through Mysia on his second missionary journey, when the Spirit of Jesus forbade him to enter Bithynia to the northeast (Acts 16:7), effectively directing him westward toward the Aegean coast. He traveled through Mysia — apparently without preaching there — and came down to the port city of Troas (Acts 16:8), where he received the Macedonian vision calling him to cross into Europe (Acts 16:9–10). This pivotal redirection through Mysia marked the point at which the gospel first crossed from Asia into Europe, making Mysia a geographical transition point of enormous missionary significance even though it was not itself directly evangelized at this stage.