The Greek Dalmatia refers to the Roman province of Dalmatia, located along the eastern Adriatic coast in what is now Croatia and Bosnia. It appears only once in the New Testament.
Though a brief mention, Dalmatia appears in one of the most poignant passages in Paul's final letter. Writing from his death-row cell in 2 Timothy 4:10, Paul reports that Titus has gone to Dalmatia — one of the last geographical notes in his final correspondence. This single verse maps the extraordinary reach of early Christian mission: the gospel had traveled from Jerusalem to Rome, from Judea to the far shore of the Adriatic. Every geographic name in Acts and the Epistles is a testimony to the missional momentum of the early church. Dalmatia was not the edge of the world — it was a Roman province full of souls for whom Christ died. The church planted in Dalmatia by Titus and others continues to this day in the region's Christian communities.