Gangas
Γάγγας
Gangas, GANGITES (Γάγγας, Γαγγίτης, Appian, App. BC 4.106), a river of Macedonia, which takes its rise at and flows round Philippi; after its confluence with the ZYGACTES the united streams bore the name of the ANGITES (Anghista), which was so called from the branch at Philippi. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 225.) It was by this river side
(Acts, 16.13), the fountains of which gave the name to the city, before the time of Philip of Macedon--Crenides,--the Place of Fountains,--that the Proseucha
was situated (in consequence of the ablutions which were connected with the worship) in which the Gospel was first preached within the limits of Europe. (Comp. Coneybeare and Howson, Life and Epistles of St. Paul, vol. i. p. 316.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.