By the time he died, he had stemmed the relentless Ottoman advance through Europe and himself ruled over an empire that stretched from the Black Sea to Dalmatia and from Moravia to Bosnia.

14the brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea.

Acts 19:22 And having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a time.