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Mount Carmel (Hebrew הַר הַכַּרְמֶל, Har HaKarmel, "God's vineyard") was a sacred mountain where Elijah defeated the prophets of a Ba'al in a contest. Carmel was a town in Judea mentioned as the residence of Nabal and Abigail. Mount Carmel, Iowa; Carmel, Maine; Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania; Carmel, Indiana; Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
The locations, lands, and nations mentioned in the Bible are not all listed here. Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
Sacred mountains can also provide an important piece of a culture's identity. For example, Bruno Messerli and Jack Ives write, "The Armenian people regard Mount Ararat, a volcano in eastern Turkey believed to be the site of Noah's Ark in the Bible, to be a symbol of their natural and cultural identity". [13]
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It is traditionally identified as the Nur or Amanus Mountains. [6] In the Second Temple period, Jewish authors seeking to establish with greater precision the geographical definition of the Promised Land, began to construe Mount Hor as a reference to the Amanus range of the Taurus Mountains, which marked the northern limit of the Syrian plain. [7]
Of the 200 most prominent summits of the United States, 84 are located in Alaska, 17 in California, 17 in Nevada, 14 in Washington, 12 in Montana, 11 in Utah, nine in Arizona, seven in Hawaii, six in Colorado, six in Oregon, four in Wyoming, four in Idaho, four in New Mexico, two in North Carolina, and one each in New Hampshire, New York, Tennessee, Texas and Maine.
Mount Pisgah (Quebec), in Appalachian Mountains, at the border of Quebec and Maine; Mount Pisgah (Bible), the mountain in the Bible from which Moses saw the Promised Land for the first time; Mount Pisgah (Smith Island), in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; Mount Pisgah (Victoria), a small volcanic lava dome in Australia
The name "Bible Belt" has been applied historically to the South and parts of the Midwest, but is more commonly identified with the South. [6] It encompasses both the Deep South (South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most of Louisiana) and the Upland South (North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, and Oklahoma).