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Manuscripts from the Holy Land Shapell Manuscript Foundation "Description of the Holy Land", 1585 map depicting the Holy Land at the time of Jesus, World Digital Library This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Palestine, Holiness of". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New ...
Map accompanying Burckhardt's Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, published in 1822, five years after his travels in the region. Syria and the Holy Land 1830: Hall map: Sidney Hall: 1830 map shows the Ottoman divisions: Palestine: 1840: Royal Engineers map: Charles Rochfort Scott: The first British army survey, carried out during the Oriental ...
For this purpose he hired a young German map maker, Heinrich Kiepert… Through his efforts the maps of ancient Israel were thoroughly revised and improved; modern cartography of the Holy Land begun." [3] [4] The sources for the map of Palestine were set out by Robinson in the introduction to the first volume of the first edition of his work: [5]
Other names for the region include Canaan, the Promised Land, the Land of Israel, or the Holy Land. The earliest written record referring to Palestine as a geographical region is in the Histories of Herodotus in the 5th century BCE, which calls the area Palaistine , referring to the territory previously held by Philistia , a state that existed ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Geography of Israel Continent Asia Region Levant Coordinates 31°N 35°E / 31°N 35°E / 31; 35 Area Ranked 150th • Total 20,770 km 2 (8,020 sq mi) • Land 97.88% • Water 2.12% Coastline 273 km (170 mi) Borders Egypt: 208 km Jordan: 307 km Lebanon: 81 km Syria: 83 km West Bank: 330 ...
Skinner, Thomas (1836): Adventures During a Journey Overland to India: By Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land Published by R. Bentley, Item notes: v. 2; Spilsbury, Francis B., Edward Orme (1823): Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria: Delineated During the Campaigns of 1799 and 1800, Published by Howlett & Brimmer for G.S. Tregear ...
The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert. It contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem. The map dates to the sixth century AD.
The map was made by de Angelis's successor as the official Franciscan mapmaker. The work was published in 1620 in a detailed survey of the Holy Land Trattato delle Piante & Imagini de Sacri Edificii di Terra Santa, disegnate in Gierusalemme [Treatise on the Plans & Images of Sacred Buildings of the Holy Land, drawn in Jerusalem]. [44] [47] 1621 ...