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1888 - El Paso del Norte renamed "Juárez" in honor of Benito Juárez. [1] leaving El Paso, Texas the sole El Paso. 1889 – McGinty Club active. [9] 1890 – Population: 10,338. 1892 – Santa Fe Street bridge built. [6] 1895 – El Paso Public Library founded. [10] 1898 - Zion Lutheran Church is established. It is the first Lutheran Church in ...
Juan de Oñate y Salazar (Spanish: [ˈxwan de oˈɲate] ⓘ; 1550–1626) was a Spanish conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and colonial governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain. He led early Spanish expeditions to the Great Plains and Lower Colorado River Valley, encountering numerous indigenous ...
The El Paso Museum of History is a museum located in downtown El Paso, Texas which presents information about past 400 years of history in the United States/Mexico border region. The museum has over 16,000 feet of exhibition space. [1] Galleries in the museum feature traveling exhibitions as well as several permanent exhibitions. [1]
v. t. e. The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan 's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE. This history unfolds within the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
LMLK seals with Israeli postage stamps commemorating them. The archaeology of Israel is the study of the archaeology of the present-day Israel, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history. The ancient Land of Israel was a geographical bridge between the political and cultural centers of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
The Stepped Stone Structure, City of David, Jerusalem. In the 10th century BCE, the Israelite kingdoms of Judah and Israel emerged. The Hebrew Bible states that these were preceded by a single kingdom ruled by Saul, David and Solomon, who is said to have built the First Temple.
The Land of Israel (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, Modern: ʾEreṣ Yīsraʾel, Tiberian: ʾEreṣ Yīsrāʾēl) is the traditional Jewish name for an area of the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine.
October 18, 2016. Publication place. United States. Pages. 560. ISBN. 978-0062368744 (US) Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn is a 2016 non-fiction book by U.S.-born and Jerusalem-based author and scholar Daniel Gordis. The book was Gordis's 11th and preceded his 2019 book We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel.