Cf. Isaiah lxvi. 19.
This city was destroyed by William the Bad in 1156. It was ordered to be restored by William the Good in 1169, so that Benjamin must have visited Bari before that date. See p. 79, note 2. We have here another clue as to the date of Benjamin's travels.
See H. M. Adler's article on Jews in Southern Italy, J.Q.R., XIV, p. 111. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. lvi, describing the reconquest of the southern provinces of Italy by the Byzantine Emperor Manuel, 1155, says. "The natives of Calabria were still attached to the Greek language and worship."
The river Achelous falls into the Ionian Sea opposite to Ithaca.
Anatolica is now known as Aetolicum.