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The battle for Nish was not one, but five different battles. The first engagement was a battle against a small garrison in Nish and the Crusaders captured, pillaged, and burned the town. [12] This was followed by three battles against three different Ottoman armies advancing on Nish.
The Romans occupied the town in the period of the "Dardanian War" (75-73 BC), and set up a legionary camp. [17] The city (called refugia and vici in pre-Roman relation), because of its strategic position (Thracians were based to the south [17]) developed as an important garrison and market town of the province of Moesia Superior. [18]
The locations, lands, and nations mentioned in the Bible are not all listed here. Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
Depiction of the Battle of Eben-Ezer from the Dura-Europos synagogue (pre-244 AD) Gouda, Netherlands Inscription: Eben-Ezer on the Matthaus Frank House , today #6 Emek Refaim Street in Jerusalem Eben-Ezer ( Hebrew : אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶר , romanized : ’éḇen hā‘ēzer , lit.
The Battle of Hattin took place on 4 July 1187, between the Crusader states of the Levant and the forces of the Ayyubid sultan Saladin. It is also known as the Battle of the Horns of Hattin , due to the shape of the nearby extinct volcano of that name .
While the Hebrew Bible sometimes distinguishes between the two towns—Upper and Lower Bethoron—it often refers to both simply as Bethoron. [1] The towns are mentioned in the Bible and in other ancient sources: Upper Bethoron appears in Joshua 16:5, Lower Bethoron in Joshua 16:3, both in 1 Chronicles 7:24, [2] and the ascent in I Maccabees 3:16.
The British Bible scholar, Hugh J. Schonfield theorized that the location of Armageddon, mentioned only in the New Testament, at (Revelation 16:16), is a Greek garbling of a supposed late Aramaic name for Ramoth-Gilead; that this location, having anciently belonged to the Hebrew tribe of Gad, was, in New Testament times, part of the Greek ...