Syracuse was a port on the southeastern coast of Sicily. The Good News Translation has identified it as a city and has also employed the term city in speaking of Rhegium in verse 13. The classifier town has been employed for Puteoli.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on The Acts of the Apostles. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1972. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .