Sacred promontory or sacred cape or holy promontory or cape was a name assigned by the ancient Greeks and Romans to salient promontories extending into...

Southern Promontory to the mouths of the rivers Dabrona (possibly the Lee or the Blackwater) and Birgu (probably the Barrow) and the Sacred Promontory (Carnsore...

SACRED, a microsatellite Sacer (disambiguation) Sacred promontory, an ancient name for some promontories Sacred Way (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...

or neighboring Cape St. Vincent, was the ancient sacred promontory. Strabo believed the promontory was the most westerly point of the "whole inhabited...

landed on the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus at a place called the Sacred Promontory and marched southward towards Chalcedon. Licinius moved his army a...

Geography (2nd century AD) described a point called Ιερον (Hieron, "sacred promontory") which probably referred to Carnsore Point. Carnsore was proposed...

Sagres Point, in Portugal Sacrum § Promontory, part of the human body Sacred promontory, other promontories considered sacred This disambiguation page lists...

Santa-Maria-di-Lota. Numerous historians have termed Cap Corse "the Sacred Promontory" and have gone so far as to suppose the name came from a high concentration...

more ancient form of worship existing than that of Eiswara upon his sacred promontory. In the earliest known literary reference to the Siva temple, Mahabharata...

extended to the sacred promontory (Cape Saint Vincent) of the Iberian peninsula, the westernmost point of the known world, ground so sacred it was forbidden...

The most sacred of the Pancha Ishwarams of Sri Lanka, it was built significantly during the ancient period on top of Konesar Malai, a promontory overlooking...

needed] Pytheas. Apparently, Pytheas said that tides ended at the "sacred promontory" (Hieron akrōtērion, or Sagres Point), and from there to Gades is...

Akroterion, a name translated into Latin as Promontorium Sacrum ("Sacred Promontory") by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis historia. Human occupation of...

brought back the remains of the saint buried in a temple on the "Sacred Promontory". Upon their return, the place where the relics ought to be deposited...

the land of the Conii between the river Anas and Hieron Akroterion (sacred promontory), with the latter being the most extreme point of the known world...

been occupied since antiquity—the geographer Ptolemy called it the "Sacred Promontory" (sacrem promontorium). In medieval times, Erbalunga began exporting...

aquas absorbeus ac magno cum sonitu revomens. Swentinoz, that is the Sacred Promontory. Charybdis which every six hours engulfs the waters and then casts...

there are three off the promontory, one with a landing for vessels. Chelidonia Promontory Greek Hiera Akra, "Sacred promontory," Turkish Gelidonya Burnu...

forming gulfs, deep seas, straits and likewise isthmuses, peninsulas, and promontories; but both the rivers and the mountains assist the seas herein. It is...

Views from the Distance about his early life and the novella The Sacred Promontory (聖なる岬, Sei naru misaki) about his own erotic awakening. In 1972, he...

sacrum, the broadest and uppermost part, is tilted forward as the sacral promontory internally. The central part is curved outward toward the posterior, allowing...

column with capital, about 27 feet (8.2 m) in height. The site lies on a promontory formerly called Lacinion in a strategic position along the coastal routes...

in this respect to mythological giants. They are found near salient promontories, ominous crevasses, large boulders, potholes, woods, hills, and other...

opening to the east and south among towering rock formations of a high promontory over the sea. All buildings have been destroyed, but the outer and inner...

the 18th century, is on the plaza. There is a lighthouse on a 600-metre promontory called "Monte Facho" at the tip of Cape Finisterre overlooking the Atlantic...

Nesher, Tirat Hakarmel, and the city of Haifa, on the far northwestern promontory and its base. There is also a small kibbutz called Beit Oren, which is...

Soúnion, latinized Sunium; Venetian: Capo Colonne "Cape of Columns") is the promontory at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi)...

In geography, a cape is a headland, peninsula or promontory extending into a body of water, usually a sea. A cape usually represents a marked change in...

still several temples standing on this promontory in the time of Pausanias, of which the most remarkable was one sacred to Poseidon. The later town, which...

is a rocky promontory on Hathersage Moor in the Peak District National Park, just inside the boundary of Sheffield, England. The promontory is faced by...