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Perperikon (Bulgarian: Перперикон), also Perpericum, is an ancient Thracian city located in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains, 15 km northeast of the present-day town of Kardzhali, Bulgaria on a 470 m high rocky hill, which is thought to have been a sacred place.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild [b] is a 2017 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch and Wii U.Set at the end of the Zelda timeline, the player controls an amnesiac Link as he sets out to save Princess Zelda and prevent Calamity Ganon from destroying the world.
The guardian shrine for the nearby Byōdō-in, and adjacent to Uji Shrine, Ujigami-jinja was originally built around 1060, making it the oldest original Shinto shrine in Japan. It is the oldest example of nagare-zukuri style of shrine architecture in Japan, where the three inner shrine structures are built side-by-side, with the structure in ...
Vidisha (विदिशा, formerly known as Bhelsa and known as Besnagar and Bhaddilpur in ancient times) is a city in central Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located 62.5 km northeast of the state capital, Bhopal. The name "Vidisha" is derived from the nearby river "Bais", mentioned in the Puranas. [1]
Palmyra (/ p æ l ˈ m aɪ r ə / pal-MY-rə; Palmyrene: 𐡶𐡣𐡬𐡥𐡴 (), romanized: Tadmor; Arabic: تَدْمُر, romanized: Tadmur) is an ancient city in central Syria. It is located in the eastern part of the Levant , and archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early ...
A region in the World of Darkness or underworld. [16] Yardna: A body of flowing fresh water that is suitable for ritual use as baptismal water in Mandaeism. [17] Zarahemla: A civilization which was constructed in the ancient Americas, according to Mormon belief. Zerzura: Saharan city known as the "oasis of little birds" rumored to be full of ...
A coin of Marathus with the Phoenician name of the city, MRT The city lies on the Mediterranean coast around 6 km (3.7 mi) south of modern-day Tartus.Two rivers cross the city: Nahr Amrit, near the main temple, and Nahr al-Kuble near the secondary temple, a fact that might be linked to the importance of water in the religious traditions in Amrit. [2]
The citadel is the fortified heart of the ancient city, is rectangular in plan, measuring roughly 1.523 kilometres (0.946 mi) long from north to south, and 1.371 kilometres (0.852 mi) from east to west, with high and wide ramparts in all its wings. Area of the citadel is approximately 185 ha. [9]