Berea Explained

Berea may refer to:

Places

Greece

• Beroea, a place mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, now known as Veria or Veroia
• Veria, historically spelled and sometimes transliterated as Berea and site of the ancient city of Beroea

Lesotho

• Berea District

Romania

• Berea, a village in Ciumești Commune, Satu Mare County
• Berea, a tributary of the Valea Neagră in Satu Mare County

South Africa

• Berea, Durban
• Berea, Gauteng

United States

• Berea, Iowa
• Berea, Kentucky
• Berea, Baltimore, Maryland
• Berea, Nebraska
• Berea, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in Granville County
• Berea, Ohio
• Berea, South Carolina
• Berea, Giles County, Tennessee
• Berea, Warren County, Tennessee
• Berea, Virginia
• Berea, West Virginia

Other uses

• Helena Espinosa Berea (c. 1895 – c. 1960), Mexican academic
• Berea College, in Berea, Kentucky
• Berea International Theological Seminary, Seoul, South Korea
• Berea Sandstone, a type of sandstone named for Berea, Ohio
• Berea (genus), a genus of parasitic copepods in the family Chondracanthidae
• Berean Institute, vocational education school in Philadelphia

See also

• Aleppo, Syria, known as Beroea (Βέροια) in antiquity
• Bereans, inhabitants of the biblical city of Berea