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Berea was located in southwestern Macedonia, which was a province of the Roman empire in its time.No one has verified the date of the establishment of the city, although it has been known to have been surrendered to the Romans from the Macedonians after the Battle of Pydna in 168 B.C.There is a city of the same name that is mentioned in a section of Thucydides, which dates it to be around the year 432 B.C.