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    al-Darum (Gate of Deir al-Balah), Bab al-Bahr (Gate of the Sea), Bab Marnas (Gate of Marnas), Bab al-Baladiyah (Gate of the Town), Bab al-Khalil (Gate of Hebron)...
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    changes to Gaza; its churches were transformed into mosques, including the Cathedral of John the Baptist (previously the Temple of Marnas), which became...
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    conflict. The economy of the Gaza Strip was dependent on small industries and agriculture. After years of decline, the Gaza economy experienced some growth...
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    of Gaza, also known as the Great Omari Mosque, is a ruined mosque located in Gaza City, Palestine. It is the largest and oldest mosque in all of Gaza. Believed...
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    Dagon (redirect from Marnas)
    the Classical period, the central temple of Gaza was dedicated to a god named Marnas (from Aramaic marnā, "lord"). Itamar Singer considered it a possibility...
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     347–420) was bishop of Gaza from 395 to 420, known, from the account in his Life, for Christianizing the recalcitrant pagan city of Gaza, and demolishing its...
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  • Sundsvall MV Marna, a British coaster formerly named Empire Cliff and later named Harcliff and then MV Ricardo Manuel Marnas, a god worshipped in Gaza in antiquity...
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  • Under Porphyrius, who became bishop around the year 395, the temple of Marnas and all other pagan temples of the town were closed and destroyed. His successor...
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    church. Bishops from Gaza (Palaestina Prima) arrive at Constantinople to ask Arcadius that he close the pagan temple of Marnas. Aspar, Alan patrician...
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    Anatole (Ἀνατολὴς). "At Gaza, in Palestine, in the time of the emperor Arcadius, St. Porphyry, bishop, who overthrew the idol Marnas and its temple, and after...
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    pagan temples and intimidate the pagan populace of Gaza. Porphyry destroyed the temple of Marnas and constructed a basilica there in honor of the vow...
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    ISBN 978-0-307-42518-8. LIMC, s.v. Zeus, p. 342. Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Gaza" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.; Johannes Hahn:...
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    Palestinian resistance, Andreas Malm celebrated the "heroic armed resistance in Gaza". He thus expressed his “astonishment” and his “tears of joy” following the...
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    Party. In 2024, Mélenchon condemned Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip as "genocide" and supported South Africa's genocide case against Israel...
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  • church. Bishops from Gaza (Palaestina Prima) arrive at Constantinople to ask Arcadius that he close the pagan temple of Marnas. Emperor Arcadius sends...
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  • fertility—which Samson toppled in the Book of Judges. Later, a temple dedicated to Marnas—god of rain and grain—was erected. Local legend today claims that Samson...
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    Cynegius whom the empress Aelia Eudoxia sent against the temple of Zeus Marnas at Gaza in 401. His Greek surname, Cynegius, has also led to suggestions that...
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    doing battle with temple demons. The temples of Zeus at Apameia and of Marnas at Gaza City are said to have been brought down by the local bishops around...
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    Nagogo, Kofar Nagogo I; Bangire Ung. Nagogo, Kofar Nagogo II; Gaza Gabas, Primary School; Gaza Kudu, Kofar Magaji Dan Yayari; Dago Dutse, Kofar Sarki; Dago...
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  • constructed directly upon the ruins of The Marneion, the temple sacred to Zeus Marnas, who was the local Hellenistic incarnation of Dagon. It was the last surviving...
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    Constituency Incumbent Results Incumbent Party Candidates Wukari Tangul Gaza AG Y Tangul Gaza (AG) 54.84% I. S. Usman (NPC) 33.76% H. A. Donga (NEPU) 7.56%...
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  • Celona in Borgogna / [Cabilone] (old) Châlons-en-Champagne Cialone sulla Marna / Scialona, Scialone / Cialona / [Catalauno] (old) Chambéry Sciamberì or...
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