cenchrea

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cenchrea - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Cenchrea
  millet, the eastern harbour of Corinth, from which it was
  distant about 9 miles east, and the outlet for its trade with
  the Asiatic shores of the Mediterranean. When Paul returned from
  his second missionary journey to Syria, he sailed from this port
  (Acts 18:18). In Rom. 16:1 he speaks as if there were at the
  time of his writing that epistle an organized church there. The
  western harbour of Corinth was Lechaeum, about a mile and a half
  from the city. It was the channel of its trade with Italy and
  the west.