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As of the census [3] of 2000, there were 322 people, 126 households, and 86 families residing in the city. The population density was 77.6 inhabitants per square mile (30.0/km 2).
Edom and the Edomites appear in several written sources relating to the late Bronze Age and to the Iron Age in the Levant, including the list of the Egyptian pharaoh Seti I from c. 1215 BC as well as in the chronicle of a campaign by Ramesses III (r. 1186–1155 BC), and the Tanakh. [7]
Separated from Texas by U.S. Supreme Court ruling in United States v. the State of Texas, 162 U.S. 1 (1896) and is now part of southwestern Oklahoma. Perdido County, formed in 1824 and forgotten during the upheavals of the 1840s. Perdido was reportedly abolished in 1858 and again in 1871. Records of annexation to Dawson County are also ...
Edom is the name given to Esau and the nation descending from him in the Hebrew Bible. Edom may also refer to: Edom, Texas, a city in northeast Texas; Edom Hill, a peak in the Indio Hills in Riverside County, California; Thousand Palms, California, which was once called Edom
Uz has often been identified as either Aram in modern-day Syria (teal) or Edom in modern-day Jordan (yellow).. The land of Uz (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ־עוּץ – ʾereṣ-ʿŪṣ) is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, most prominently in the Book of Job, which begins, "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job".
Van Zandt County is commonly known as the Free State of Van Zandt. The title was particularly prevalent through the Reconstruction Era, but is still in use today.Many versions of the county's history may account for this moniker, and historians, even within the county and throughout its existence, do not agree how exactly it became known as the Free State.
At the end of Spain's reign over Texas virtually all people living there were members of the Roman Catholic church, and Roman Catholicism is still the primary religion there today. [73] The Spanish missions built in San Antonio to convert Indians to Catholicism have been restored and are a National Historic Landmark .
This is a list of articles covering the history of present-day nations, states, and dependencies. Countries are listed in bold under their respective pages, whereas territories and dependencies are not. Disputed and unrecognized countries are italicized.