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... a commercial center, but never a metropolis. The name "Thyatira" means "the castle of Thya." Other names which it has borne are Pelopia and Semiramis. Before the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/thyatira.htm
... The most northerly tower is well preserved. The most interesting building at Kerak is the huge castle on the southern side. It is separated from the adjoining hill on the right by a ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kir.htm
... The most northerly tower is well preserved. The most interesting building at Kerak is the huge castle on the southern side. It is separated from the adjoining hill on the right by a ...
https://bibleatlas.org/king's_highway.htm
... 300 ft. above the town, in what must have been the crater, stands the castle. The view from the battlements, as the present writer can testify, is one of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/salecah.htm
... Aujeh, in the plain to the Northeast of Jaffa. There are remains of a crusading castle which may be the Mirabel of those times. W. Ewing ANTIP'ATRIS, the site is ...
https://bibleatlas.org/antipatris.htm
... Barbarossa fought with the Byzantines there. The modern town is called Pambuk Kalessi, or cotton castle, not because cotton is raised in the vicinity, but because of the white deposit from ...
https://bibleatlas.org/hierapolis.htm
... into the hands of the Turks. The ruins, now called Eski Hissar, or old castle, lie near the modern Gonjelli on the railroad, and they have long served as a ...
https://bibleatlas.org/laodicea.htm
... Psammetichus I, circa 664 B.C., and now called Kasr Bint el-Yehudi, `the castle of the Jew's daughter, ' is identical with the quadrangle `which is at the entry ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tahpanhes.htm
... . The walls and towers of which the remains are seen date from Crusading times. The castle, ec-Cubeibeh, crowns the hill behind the town, and must have been a place of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/caesarea.htm
... have been divided into patricians and plebeians, the former of whom had the right to build castles and to share in the government. 2. Religion: A number of deities are mentioned ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sheba.htm
... , but the Crusaders thought it was at Jamnia (Yebna), where they erected the castle of Ibelin, but the consensus of opinion in modern times fixes upon Tell es Safi as ...
https://bibleatlas.org/gath.htm
... by Robinson. The present writer agrees with Buhl (GAP, 240) that the ancient castle above Banias, Kal`at ec-Cubeibeh, occupies a more likely position. (3 ) ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mizpeh.htm
... this view, but Erech is mentioned in Genesis. Ammianus Marcellinus identified the city with the castle of Ur in the desert between Hatra and Nisibis, but this was only founded in the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/leb-kamai.htm
... by Robinson. The present writer agrees with Buhl (GAP, 240) that the ancient castle above Banias, Kal`at ec-Cubeibeh, occupies a more likely position. (3 ) ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mizpah.htm
... this view, but Erech is mentioned in Genesis. Ammianus Marcellinus identified the city with the castle of Ur in the desert between Hatra and Nisibis, but this was only founded in the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ur.htm
... . The walls and towers of which the remains are seen date from Crusading times. The castle, ec-Cubeibeh, crowns the hill behind the town, and must have been a place of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/caesarea_philippi.htm
... G. Pinches HALAH, its site has probably been discovered at a place called "the castle" near the Khabour, 300 ms. n. w. of Babylon. 2 Kings ...
https://bibleatlas.org/halah.htm
... The ruins lie on both sides of the stream, and include those of a very ancient castle, built of great basaltic blocks, with square columns, 8 ft. thick, which ...
https://bibleatlas.org/haran.htm
... the part of the rabbis (ibid., 451-52) . The Crusaders built there the castle of Ibelin, supposing it to be the site of Gath. It was occupied by the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/jabneel.htm
... by Robinson. The present writer agrees with Buhl (GAP, 240) that the ancient castle above Banias, Kal`at ec-Cubeibeh, occupies a more likely position. (3 ) ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mizpeh_3.htm
... may have been used for libations. In the western wall of el-Qal`ah, Justinian's castle, there are 12 stones under which, it is said, are the stones which Israel ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mount_gerizim.htm
... 7 1/2 ms. from the Mediterranean, now called Eski Kalessi, "old castle," 225 ms. e.s.e. of Smyrna, and 10 ms. from the sea ...
https://bibleatlas.org/perga.htm
... and the Black-gate, as the Turks call it, is near the railroad station. The castle upon Mt. Pagus, 460 ft. above the sea, dates from Byzantine times. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/smyrna.htm
... the part of the rabbis (ibid., 451-52) . The Crusaders built there the castle of Ibelin, supposing it to be the site of Gath. It was occupied by the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/jabneel_2.htm
... walls of the ancient city may still be traced, and the foundations of the temple and castle and other public buildings are visible. The most imposing of the ruins is a triumphal arch ...
https://bibleatlas.org/patara.htm
