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  2. Dilmun - Wikipedia

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    [1] [8] Dilmun encompassed Bahrain, [9] Kuwait, [10] [11] [12] and eastern Saudi Arabia. [ 13 ] The great commercial and trading connections between Mesopotamia and Dilmun were strong and profound to the point where Dilmun was a central figure to the Sumerian creation myth. [ 14 ]

  3. Comaetho of Cilicia - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Comaetho (Ancient Greek: Κομαιθώ, romanized: Komaithṓ, lit. 'bright-haired' [1]) is a queen or Naiad nymph of Cilicia who fell in love with the local river-god Cydnus. The goddess Aphrodite then transformed her into a spring, and the queen was acquatically joined with her beloved for the rest of time.

  4. History of Bahrain - Wikipedia

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    Bahrain: Political development in a modernizing society. ISBN 0-669-00454-5; Andrew Wheatcroft (1995). The Life and Times of Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa : Ruler of Bahrain 1942–1961. ISBN 0-7103-0495-1; Fuad Ishaq Khuri (1980). Tribe and state in Bahrain: The transformation of social and political authority in an Arab state. ISBN 0-226 ...

  5. Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise) - Wikipedia

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    Dilmun is first mentioned in association with Kur (mountain) and this is particularly problematic as Bahrain is very flat, having a highest prominence of only 134 metres (440 ft) elevation. [2] Also, in the early epic Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta , the construction of the ziggurats in Uruk and Eridu are described as taking place in a world ...

  6. Category:Women in mythology - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 20 February 2024, at 23:44 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  7. Women in Bahrain - Wikipedia

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    In the 1950s, the first group of Bahraini women studied in Cairo, Egypt and Beirut, Lebanon to become teachers and school principals in Bahrain. The first hospital-based Nursing School in Bahrain was founded in 1959 with the opening of the College of Health Sciences gave opportunities for Bahraini women to practice as nurses. Women were able to ...

  8. Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa - Wikipedia

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    Sheika Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa was appointed Minister of Information in Bahrain in 2009; she was the first woman to become the Information Minister in Bahrain. [1] She is the Chairperson of the Board of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage and the former President of the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities.

  9. Manat (goddess) - Wikipedia

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    Manāt (Arabic: مناة Arabic pronunciation: pausa, or Old Arabic manawat; also transliterated as manāh) was a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess worshipped in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the 6/7th century.