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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Achaia
     the name originally of a narrow strip of territory in Greece, on
     the north-west of the Peloponnesus. Subsequently it was applied
     by the Romans to the whole Peloponnesus, now called the Morea,
     and the south of Greece. It was then one of the two provinces
     (Macedonia being the other) into which they divided the country


     when it fell under their dominion. It is in this latter enlarged
     meaning that the name is always used in the New Testament (Acts
     18:12, 27; 19:21; Rom. 15: 26; 16:5, etc.). It was at the time
     when Luke wrote the Acts of the Apostles under the proconsular
     form of government; hence the appropriate title given to Gallio
     as the "deputy," i.e., proconsul, of Achaia (Acts 18:12).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Achaia, grief; trouble
  

















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