WHY PAUL WENT TO TRO' AS?

TRO'AS was the principal port of North West Asia Minor. It was located about 20mi/32km South of the Helles'Pont (Dardan'Elles) and somewhat more than half that distance South of the traditional site of ancient Troy. In fact, Tro'as drew its name from Tro'ad, the term applied to that part of the region of Mysia that surrounded Troy.
Tro'as as a maritime city of Mysia was the chief city on the coast of the Aegean Sea, opposite the South east extremity of the island of Tenedos, and named after ancient Troy, which was at short distance from it (4mi/6.4km) to the North. It was a Macedonian and Roman colony of considerable importance, and was called Alexandria Tro'as.
Tro'as city was 1st built during the latter part of the 4th BC by Antigon'Us, one of the greatest generals of Alexander the Great, under the name of Antigon'Ea Tro'as.  Lys'Imach'Us enlarged the city, and it became the chief port between Macedon' Ia and Asia Minor. The roads to the interior were good. For a time the Seleu'Cid kings made their homes here. Later, when the city became free, it struck its own coins, of which vast numbers are found; a common type is one upon which is stamped a graazing horse.
In 133 BC Tro'as came into the possession of the Romans, and thereafter the Region of Mysia became part of the Roman Province of Asia. Julius Caesar for a time designed to establish there the 'seat of his empire;' and Augustus and Constantine meditated the same project. Augustus further favored the city by making it a 'Roman colonia,' independent of the Roman provincial governor of Asia, and by exempting its citizens from both land and poll taxes.
Roman sentiment attracted them to Tro'as, the alleged 'seat' from whence Aeueas, the fabled progenitor of Rome's founder, originally migrated.
During Byzantine times Tro'as was the 'seat' of a Catholic Diocese, a territorial unit of administration.
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the 'diocese.'
With the adoption of Christianity as the Empire' s official religion in the 4th CE, the clergy assumed official positions of authority alongside the civil governors. A formal church hierarchy was set up, parallel to the civil administration, whose areas of responsibility often coincided.
With the collapse of the Western Empire in the 5th CE, the bishops in Western Europe assumed the large part of the role of the former Roman governors. A similar, though less pronounced, development occurred in the East, where the Roman administrative apparatus was largely retained by the Byzantine Empire.
Tro'as was visited several times by the apostle Paul and his companion 'the beloved physician,' and on one of these visits he left his cloak, some scrolls and parchments there after his 1st imprisonment.
On his 2nd journey, here Paul saw the 'vision of a man of Macedonia,' who appeared to him, saying, 'Come over, and help us'.
After leaving Ephesus on his 3rd journey Paul stopped in Tro'as and there then preached the Good News. He said, 'A door was opened to me in the Lord..' . After an undisclosed period of time, Paul was concerned about Titus because he didn't arrive on the prefixed time so he departed for Macedon'Ia, hoping to find him there. Paul spent that winter in Greece before returning again to Tro'as.
In the following spring Paul stayed 7 days in Tro'as ministering and spiritually building up the Spirit of Christian church. When assembled with them the night before leaving, and while Paul prolonged his speech, a young man named Eu-Tych-Us, who was seated at the third-loft window, fell asleep at midnight and tumbled to his death. Paul miraculously brought the boy back to life and continued conversing to the assembly until daybreak. The experience was taken as a reproof of carelessness and drowsiness in the spiritual teachings that lead to death (Acts 16,20; 2Cor.2; 2Tim.4).
It is likely that Paul visited Tro'as again after being released from house arrest in Rome. Then Paul wrote to Timothy during his 2nd imprisonment in Rome asking him to bring his cloak and certain scrolls and parchments that were left by Paul in the house of Carpus in Tro'as.
The land of ancient Tro'as is now a forest of magnificent oaks that has sprung up around it and extends over many miles. The walls enclose a rectangle. The rains are still large, and the harbor still traceable.
The name of the place is known now as  'Old Constantinople.'