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While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [ 1][ 2][ 3] or later ...
Antioch – In Asia Minor. Arabia – (in biblical times and until the 7th century AD Arabia was confined to the Arabian Peninsula) Aram / Aramea – (Modern Syria) Arbela (Erbil/Irbil) – Assyrian city. Archevite. Armenia – Indo-European kingdom of eastern Asia Minor and southern Caucasus. Arrapkha – Assyrian city, modern Kirkuk.
The Middle East, with its particular characteristics, was not to emerge until the late second millennium AD. To refer to a concept similar to that of today's Middle East but earlier in time, the term ancient Near East is used. This list is intended as a timeline of the history of the Middle East. For more detailed information, see articles on ...
Semitic people. The first depiction of historical ethnology of the world separated into the biblical sons of Noah: Semites, Hamites and Japhetites. Gatterer 's Einleitung in die Synchronistische Universalhistorie (1771) explains his view that modern history has shown the truth of the biblical prediction of Japhetite supremacy ( Genesis 9:25 ...
The land of Uz ( Hebrew: אֶרֶץ־עוּץ – ʾereṣ-ʿŪṣ) is a location mentioned in the Old Testament, most prominently in the Book of Job, which begins, "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job ". [ 1] The name "Uz" is used most often to refer to Uz, son of Aram, presumably the region's namesake. He is mentioned ...
The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; Arabic: أرض الميعاد, translit.: ard al-mi'ad) is Middle Eastern land in the Levant that Abrahamic religions (which include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and others) claim God promised and subsequently gave to Abraham (the legendary patriarch in Abrahamic religions) and several more times to his ...
I. Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) [ 21][ 22][ 23] India [ 24] Israel. Italy (Italy generally [ 25] and the cities of Syracuse [ 26] and Rome specifically [ 27]) Illyricum (territories near the Adriatic from modern day Slovenia to Albania) [ 28]
The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East is the Anglican church responsible for the Middle East and North Africa. It is quite small, with only some 35,000 members throughout the area. The Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf looks after 30,000-40,000 Anglicans in the area and ministers to Protestants and others.