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Mount Carmel (Hebrew הַר הַכַּרְמֶל, Har HaKarmel, "God's vineyard") was a sacred mountain where Elijah defeated the prophets of a Ba'al in a contest. Carmel was a town in Judea mentioned as the residence of Nabal and Abigail. Mount Carmel, Iowa. Carmel, Maine. Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Antioch – In Asia Minor. Arabia – (in biblical times and until the 7th century AD Arabia was confined to the Arabian Peninsula) Aram / Aramea – (Modern Syria) Arbela (Erbil/Irbil) – Assyrian city. Archevite. Armenia – Indo-European kingdom of eastern Asia Minor and southern Caucasus. Arrapkha – Assyrian city, modern Kirkuk.
Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) [21][22][23] Illyricum (territories near the Adriatic from modern day Slovenia to Albania) [24] India [25] Israel. Italy (Italy generally [26] and the cities of Syracuse [27] and Rome specifically [28])
Widstoe. Wilford. Willard. Winter Quarters. Woodruff. References. List of Mormon place names. Appearance. This is a List of Mormon place names, meaning towns and other places named, in modern times, after places and people in the Book of Mormon, after Mormon leaders during the settlement of Utah, or after other elements of the Church of Jesus ...
In Category:Biblical places, there is List of biblical places, created 30 September 2005 by Pcb21, and also List of minor biblical places, on 14 February 2011 by User:Moswento, in the same year (2011) this list-article was created by another editor. I don't see any other related list-articles.
Mount Zion, with the Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper) and the nearby site of the Dormition of Mary. Mount of Olives, whose western flank is facing Jerusalem (for sites on its eastern side see Bethany and Bethphage). Here are the traditional sites of a cave in which Jesus taught his disciples, of the Ascension of Jesus and, in the Orthodox ...
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