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Mount Seir (Hebrew: הַר-שֵׂעִיר, romanized: Har Sēʿīr) is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast of the Kingdom of Judah.
The year begins with the first sight of Spring.In the Julian calendar, the vernal equinox moved gradually away from 21 March.The Gregorian calendar reform restored the vernal equinox to its original date, but since the festival was by now tied to the date, not the astronomical event, Kha b-Nisan remains fixed at 21 March in the Julian reckoning, corresponding to 1 April in the Gregorian calendar.
Sauma d-Ba'utha ܒܥܘܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܝܐ , the Nineveh fast, is a three-day period of fasting and prayer. [298] Somikka, All Saints Day, is celebrated to motivate children to fast during Lent through use of frightening costumes; Kalu d'Sulaqa, feast of the Bride of the Ascension, celebrates Assyrian resistance to the invasion of Assyria by ...
Seir the Horite, chief of the Horites, a people mentioned in the Torah; Sa'ir, also Seir, a Palestinian town in the Hebron Governorate in the West Bank; Seir, a demon in the Ars Goetia; Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR), is a mid-ocean ridge in the southern Indian Ocean; SEIR model, a compartmental model in epidemiology
A giant lamassu from the royal palace of the Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II (r. 722–705 BC) at Dur-Sharrukin The history of the Assyrians encompasses nearly five millennia, covering the history of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Assyria, including its territory, culture and people, as well as the later history of the Assyrian people after the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 609 BC.
Assyrian continuity is the study of continuity between the modern Assyrian people, a recognised Semitic indigenous ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority in Western Asia (particularly in Iraq, northeast Syria, southeast Turkey and northwest Iran) and the people of Ancient Mesopotamia in general and ancient Assyria in particular.
A town is hoping to build a modern day henge to celebrate its community and nature. Luton Henge project could see a monument built in Marsh Farm, close to the site of the town's pre-historic earth ...
The Limestone waterfall of the Zered, now called the Wadi al-Hasa. The boundary between Moab and Edom was the Zered, now called Wadi al-Hasa. [36] The ancient capital of Edom was Bozrah, now Busaira, Jordan. [37] According to the Book of Genesis, Esau's descendants settled in the land after they had displaced the Horites. [38]