Pella (Greek: Πέλλα, Arabic: فحل) was an ancient city in what is now northwest Jordan, and contains ruins from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age...
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Greece, close to Pella Nea Pella [el], a village in Macedonia, Greece, close to Pella Pella, Jordan, ancient city in Jordan Diocese of Pella Apamea (Syria)...
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it is centered on Pella, Jordan. Pella was an ancient bishopric in with a Christian community from before 70 AD. Zebennus of Pella It was a titular see...
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like Apamea, before crossing the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and capturing Pella, Jordan and Damascus. Pompey's incursion further south, into Judea, was occasioned...
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Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north...
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Christians had been warned to flee to Pella in the region of the Decapolis across the Jordan River. The flight to Pella probably did not include the Ebionites...
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Ammar Khammash (category Jordanian people of Circassian descent)
nature and the surrounding environment. His projects helped revive Pella and Jordan Valley by creating two rest stops. He has participated in many art...
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The Pella curse tablet is a text written in a distinct Doric Greek idiom, found in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedon, in 1986. Ιt contains a curse...
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based on Aristo of Pella, that the early Christians left Jerusalem just prior to the war and fled to Pella, Jordan beyond the Jordan River, but does not...
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Irbid (redirect from Irbid, Jordan)
Pella, Ajloun, Umm el-Jimal and other historical sites; or traveling on to Syria. Irbid Museum Of Jordanian Heritage Dolmen Irbid Museum Of Jordanian...
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caravans, seems to imply that his location in western Jordan, (as "Mayor of Pihilu"-(modern Pella, Jordan)), was an important trade route to the east to Babylonia...
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regard to the whereabouts of Ayyab, who may be in Pihilu, modern day Pella, Jordan, and is a letter of intrigue, catalogued as "Oaths and denials", and...
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Hiziru EA 336-37 (author) Šub-Andu EA's 301–306, (author) (Pihilu) Pella, Jordan Mut-Bahli Mutbaal no 1—EA 255, l. 3 no 2—EA 256, l. 2, 5 (author) Qatna...
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Potts acted as co-director of the University of Sydney excavations at Pella, Jordan from 1982 to 1989. He worked at Lehman Brothers in New York from 1990...
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The history of Jordan refers to the history of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the background period of the Emirate of Transjordan under British protectorate...
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the other location is in the modern country of Jordan, about 25 km (16 mi) northeast of Pella, Jordan. The "Judea" of Josephus' account may be equated...
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caravans, seems to imply that his location in western Jordan, (as "Mayor of Pihilu"-(modern Pella, Jordan)), was an important trade route to the east to Babylonia...
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Wadi Hammeh 27 (category Archaeological sites in Jordan)
Wadi Hammeh 27 is a Late Epipalaeolithic archaeological site in Pella, Jordan. It consists of the remains of a large settlement dating to the Early Natufian...
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database Theatre at Pella Pella Pella Jordan 32°27′00″N 35°37′00″E / 32.45°N 35.616667°E / 32.45; 35.616667 (Theatre at Pella) 38.5 metres (126 ft)...
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Dium (Coele-Syria) (redirect from Dion, Jordan)
Beit Ras in Jordan. The location of Dium is therefore not proven with certainty. According to Ptolemy, the city was positioned between Pella and Gadara...
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Decapolis (category Roman towns and cities in Jordan)
Palaestina Secunda. The Decapolis region is located in modern-day Jordan (Philadelphia, Gerasa, Pella and Gadara), Israel (Scythopolis and Hippos) and Syria (Raphana...
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The topic of the letter is the whereabouts of Ayyab, supposedly in Pella, Jordan (Pihilu of the letters). Each text line was written with a horizontal...
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Battle of Fahl (category Medieval history of Jordan)
Caliphate and Byzantine forces at or near Pella (Fahl) and nearby Scythopolis (Beisan), both in the Jordan Valley, in December 634 or January 635. Byzantine...
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Amman (redirect from Amman (Jordan))
centuries. In the northern modern-day Jordan, the Greek cities of Philadelphia (Amman), Gerasa, Gedara, Pella and Arbila joined with other cities in...
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Central College (Iowa) (redirect from Central College (Pella, Iowa))
Central College is a private college in Pella, Iowa, United States. Affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, the college was founded in 1853 and...
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of two letters by Labaya's son: Mutbaal of the city, Pihilu, modern Pella, Jordan. The letter is EA 256, title: "Oaths and denials", (the oaths and denials...
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Perea (category Regions of Jordan)
Machaerus to Pella : in breadth, from Philadelphia to the Jordan : its northern districts being bounded, as we have already said, by Pella ; and those...
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Jerash (redirect from Jerash, Jordan)
romanized: Gérasa; Attic Greek: [gérasa], Koinē Greek: [ˈgerasa]) is a city in northern Jordan. The city is the administrative center of the Jerash Governorate, and has...
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List of shipwrecks: 3 November 2011 Ship State Description Pella Jordan The ro-ro ferry caught fire and sank in the Red Sea off Aqaba with the loss of...
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were also founded by the Greeks, including Gadara, Jerash and Pella. In modern Jordan there were the Decapolis. During the Antigonid–Nabataean confrontations...
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