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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.
In 1944 the city was heavily bombed by the Allies. On October 14, 1945, after a long and exhausting battle, the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen was defeated and Niš was liberated by the Bulgarian Army, [55] [56] [57] and Partisans. The city was heavily bombed by the Allies in 1944 along with other cities in Axis Serbia. [58]
Niš was known as Нишь [10] or Ньшь [11] (Nyšь) in Old Serbian and Old Bulgarian. Nāissus is the Ancient name of the city. [12] Naissus is itself probably a derivative of the older *Nāviskos, from *Nāvia ("trough valley"), the Celtic name of the Nišava River, which flows through the city.
Absalom's Monument; Achaia; Admah; Ai; Akko; Akkad – Mesopotamian state; Allammelech – within the Tribe of Asher land, described in the Book of Joshua. [1]Allon Bachuth; Alqosh, in the Nineveh Plains, mentiomed in the Book of Nahum
It is currently accepted among many Israeli archaeologists and historians to place the Eben-Ezer of the first narrative in the immediate neighborhood of modern-day Kafr Qasim, near Antipatris (ancient city Aphek). In contrast, the second battle's location is deemed insufficiently well-defined in the Biblical text.
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 ...
Territory of Gad on an 1852 map: Mahanaim can be seen in the northeast corner of the pink-shaded area of Gad. Mahanaim (Hebrew: מַחֲנַיִם Maḥănayīm, "camps") is a place mentioned a number of times by the Bible said to be near Jabbok, in the same general area as Jabesh-gilead, beyond the Jordan River. Although two possible sites ...
Gibeah of Judah was a city in the tribal inheritance of Judah (Joshua 15:57); cities mentioned in nearby verses included Zanoah and Halhul. C. R. Conder identifies this Gibeah with Jab'a. [23] Gibeah of Ephraim was a city in the tribal inheritance of Ephraim, "the Gibeah of Phinehas" (Joshua 24:33); Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was buried