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The Camino de Santiago (Latin: Peregrinatio Compostellana, lit. ' Pilgrimage of Compostela '; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), [1] or in English the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.
The James at Percival's Island Riverwalk in Lynchburg, Virginia. The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County 348 miles (560 km) [3] to the Chesapeake Bay. [4] The river length extends to 444 miles (715 km) if the Jackson ...
James Lynn Patton, (1690 or 1692 – 30 July, 1755) was a merchant, pioneer frontiersman, and soldier who settled parts of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Between his immigration to Virginia in 1740, and his death there in 1755, he was a prominent figure in the exploration, settlement, governance, and military leadership of the colony.
Hebrew: בֵּית אֵל. Beit El. Possible Meanings: House of God, House of (the Canaanite god of) El. Bethlehem/ Ephrata. (Beth Lehem) (This is the biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ. However some scholars believe he was born in Nazareth.
The French Riviera, known in French as the Côte d'Azur ( IPA: [kot dazyʁ]; Provençal: Còsta d'Azur, IPA: [ˈkwɔstɔ daˈzyʀ]; lit. ' Azure Coast' ), is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is considered to be the coastal area of the Alpes-Maritimes department, extending from ...
A salt road (also known as a salt route, salt way, saltway, or salt trading route) refers to any of the prehistoric and historical trade routes by which essential salt was transported to regions that lacked it. From the Bronze Age (in the 2nd millennium BC) fixed transhumance routes appeared, like the Ligurian drailles that linked the maritime ...
Solnitsata (Bulgarian: Солницата, "The Saltworks") was a prehistoric town located in present-day Bulgaria, near the modern city of Provadia.Believed by archaeologists to be the oldest town in Europe, Solnitsata was a fortified stone settlement - citadelle, inner and outer city with pottery production site and the site of a salt production facility approximately six millennia ago; it ...
The Dead Sea is a salt lake is bordered by Jordan to the east and Palestine 's Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west. [5] [6] It is an endorheic lake, meaning there are no outlet streams. The Dead Sea lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, a geographic feature formed by the Dead Sea Transform (DST).