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The Roman Catholic diocese of Sion is the oldest in Switzerland and one of the oldest north of the Alps. At first, the see was sited at Octodurum, now called Martigny/Martinach. The first authentically historical bishop was Saint Theodore or Theodolus (died 391), who was present at the Council of Aquileia in 381.
IN-MH. Sion ( /ˈsaːjən/; IAST: Śīv [ʃiːʋ]) is a neighbourhood of Mumbai. In the 17th century the village formed the boundary between Mumbai and Salsette Island. The British named it marking the end of the city. The name remained even after Mumbai was joined to the Salsette and extended up to Mulund. One of the local historical places in ...
The Turabay dynasty was a family of Bedouin emirs who governed the district of Lajjun in northern Palestine during Ottoman rule in the 16th–17th centuries. The family's forebears had served as chiefs of Jezreel Valley during Mamluk rule in the late 15th century. During the Ottoman conquest of the region in 1516–1517, the family aided ...
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
Zion (1903), Ephraim Moses Lilien. Zion ( Hebrew: צִיּוֹן Ṣīyyōn, LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion, [ 1] Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon) [ 2] is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem [ 3][ 4] as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole. The name is found in 2 Samuel ( 2 Sam 5:7 ), one of the books ...
Allusion is an economical device, a figure of speech that uses a relatively short space to draw upon the ready stock of ideas, cultural memes or emotion already associated with a topic. Thus, an allusion is understandable only to those with prior knowledge of the covert reference in question, a mark of their cultural literacy.
From Kentucky’s Louisville to Bentonville in Arkansas, Annabel Grossman discovers America’s lesser-visited holiday destinations on a journey through the south
Syon House / ˈsaɪən / is the west London residence of the Duke of Northumberland. A Grade I listed building, [ 1] it lies within the 200-acre (80 hectare) Syon Park, in the London Borough of Hounslow . The family's traditional central London residence had been Northumberland House, now demolished.