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... was of less importance than was the neighboring city Patara, yet later it became a prominent port for ships from Egypt and Cyprus, and Theodosius II made it the capital of the province ...
https://bibleatlas.org/myra.htm
... road from there to Askelon, and about 4 miles from the sea. It had a port, now called Mina Rubin, a short distance South of the mouth of the river, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/jabneel_2.htm
... road from there to Askelon, and about 4 miles from the sea. It had a port, now called Mina Rubin, a short distance South of the mouth of the river, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/jabneh.htm
... the city walls, and erected several public buildings. The city continued to be the chief port for ships from Syria and Egypt, and the point of entry to the interior until modern ...
https://bibleatlas.org/attalia.htm
... of the chief highways to the interior, it early became a great trading-center and the chief port for the export trade. In Roman times, Smyrna was considered the most brilliant city of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/smyrna.htm
... road from there to Askelon, and about 4 miles from the sea. It had a port, now called Mina Rubin, a short distance South of the mouth of the river, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/jabneel.htm
... 1 Kings 11:14, 25 ) . The conquest of Edom opened to Israel the ports of the Red Sea, whence the expeditions of Solomon and Jehoshaphat set out. In Jehoshaphat's ...
https://bibleatlas.org/idumea.htm
... olive groves in Syria; the very small plain of Tripolis, including that city and its port; and, the most extensive of all, the plain of Marathus, extending from Arka ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenicia.htm
... , if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast. Encyclopedia PHOENIX fe' niks (Phoinix; the King ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenix.htm
... , if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast. Acts 27:13 When the south wind blew ...
https://bibleatlas.org/crete.htm
... many of the coast trading ships stopped at Patara, which therefore became an important and wealthy port of entry to the towns of the interior. As early as 440 B.C. autonomous coins ...
https://bibleatlas.org/patara.htm
... town of Cyprus in the Hellenic and Roman periods, carrying on a vigorous trade with the ports of Cilicia and Syria. Its population was mixed, consisting of Greek and Phoenician elements. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/salamis.htm
... ship for Phoenicia. It was a place celebrated not only as a trading-center, and a port of entry to the interior, but as the seat of the oracle of Apollo, and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lycia.htm
... and the next day sailed to NEAPOLIS (which see) on the Thracian coast, the port of PHILIPPI (which see) . At the northern end of Samothrace was a town where ...
https://bibleatlas.org/samothrace.htm
... Roman colony was established here in 194 B.C., and Puteoli thus became the first Roman port on the Gulf of Naples (Livy xxxiv. 45; Strabo v0.245; Velleius, i.15 ...
https://bibleatlas.org/puteoli.htm
... ) about 15 miles from the sea. He also rounded and fortified Seleucia to be the port of his new capital. The city was enlarged and embellished by successive kings of the Seleucid ...
https://bibleatlas.org/syrian_antioch.htm
... Knights of John removed to Malta, and Rhodes has remained uninterruptedly a possession of the Sublime Porte down to the recent war between Turkey and the Balkan allies, forming, with the other ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rhodes.htm
... 159-138 B.C.), rose to importance, and until recent years has been the chief port of entry on the southern coast of Asia Minor. About the beginning of our era, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pamphylia.htm
... appended to article CYPRUS. Marcus N. Tod PA'PHOS, a town in the w. port of Cyprus. There were tw'o towns bearing this name; old Paphos situated on a height ...
https://bibleatlas.org/paphos.htm
... remains of theater, the temple and the gymnasium, which was provided with baths. The port from which Paul sailed was constructed by means of a mole, with an outer and an ...
https://bibleatlas.org/troas.htm
... 1 Kings 11:14, 25 ) . The conquest of Edom opened to Israel the ports of the Red Sea, whence the expeditions of Solomon and Jehoshaphat set out. In Jehoshaphat's ...
https://bibleatlas.org/edom.htm
... in pursuance of the friendly alliance and also for the advantage of having the use of the port of Ezion-geber on the Red Sea. His brilliant reign lasted 43 years. (3 ) ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tyre.htm
... through 2 mouths, the Rosetta, East of Alexandria, and the Damietta, West of Port Said. There were formerly 7 mouths scattered along a coast-line of 140 miles. 2. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/nile_river.htm
... The coffee of the Yemen is famous; it is exported to Constantinople and named from the port of export Mokha coffee; but the bulk of it is consumed within Arabia itself. Coffee ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kedar.htm
... The coffee of the Yemen is famous; it is exported to Constantinople and named from the port of export Mokha coffee; but the bulk of it is consumed within Arabia itself. Coffee ...
https://bibleatlas.org/dumah_2.htm
