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    or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Jebel Aqra (Arabic: جبل الأقرع, romanized: Jabal al-ʾAqraʿ, [ˈd͡ʒæbæl al ˈʔaqraʕ]; Turkish: Kel Dağı) is...
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    modern Jebel Aqra. These myths are usually considered to be the origins of the myth of Zeus's battle with Typhon. From the south side of the Jebel Aqra, comes...
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  • Aqra, properly ʿAqra, is a diocese of the Chaldean Catholic Church Aqra may also refer to: Jebel Aqra (properly Jebel al-ʾAqraʿ), a mountain on the Turco-Syrian...
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    of the Canaanite storm god Baʿal (lit. "Lord") in his role as lord of Jebel Aqra, called "Mount Zaphon" in antiquity. He is identified in Ugaritic texts...
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    Ithome for Zeus Ithomatas. Zeus Kasios ("Zeus of Mount Kasios" the modern Jebel Aqra) or Latinized Casius: a surname of Zeus, the name may have derived from...
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  • prince of Paradise. In Canaanite religion Zephon was also identified with Jebel Aqra, the home of the Elohim, from which Yam was cast out. List of angels in...
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    the Orontes River and reaching the Mediterranean coast at the foot of Jebel Aqra. Since Turkey's 1939 appropriation of the Hatay State, the Syrian–Turkish...
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    Zaphon (Baʿal Ṣapunu), he was particularly associated with his palace atop Jebel Aqra (the ancient Mount Ṣapānu and classical Mons Casius). He is also mentioned...
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    Gulf of Issus from Corycus, in ancient Syria, was Mount Kasios (modern Jebel Aqra in Turkey) and the Orontes River, said to be the site of the battle of...
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    name from Kar-Hammon, "city of Hammon." Baal-zephon, the storm god of Jebel Aqra Beelzebub Punic religion Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000). Phoenician-Punic...
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    description of a banquet thrown in honour of Baʿal on Mount Zephon (modern-day Jebel Aqra). When the text resumes, we see Anat closing the door of her mansion and...
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    metres) from the west, and mount al-Nisr (851 metres) from the south. Jebel Aqra -also known as Mount Casius- at the north, located in the Turkish side...
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  • Mount Casius or Mount Kasios or Mount Kasion may refer to: Jebel Aqra, a mountain near the mouth of the Orontes River on the Syrian–Turkish border Ras...
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    the district of Hims (Homs). The Mardaites controlled the region from Jebel Aqra to northern Palestine, including Latakia in 705. However, they later withdrew...
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    mountain gods who belonged to the retinue of Teššub. Ḫazzi corresponded to Jebel Aqra, in the Bronze Age known as Saphon, but it is presently unknown what mountain...
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    Capitolinus O. M. ("of the Capitol") Casius ("of Mount Casius", the modern Jebel Aqra; a form of Baʿal Zephon) Ciminius (of Mount Ciminus, now Mount Cimino)...
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  • 70 and 190 of the towers on the city's walls collapsing. Part of the Jebel Aqra appears to have collapsed into the sea, although the historian Al-Suyuti...
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  • the mountain range) Jebel Bishri Jabal Turdah (alternatively, Turdah mountains) Mount Ḥārim Mount Zāwiya Mount Alawites Mount Aqraʻ Turkmen Mountain Anti-Lebanon...
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    are usually mentioned together in known texts. Ḫazzi corresponds to Jebel al-Aqra, while the identification of the mountain Namni represented is disputed...
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  • Gulf of Issus from Corycus, in ancient Syria, was Mount Kasios (modern Jebel Aqra) and the Orontes River, sites associated with Typhon's battle with Zeus...
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    Gaza Strip, where it disappears completely at certain points, such as Jebel Aqra, situated to the south of the Alexandretta, and in Jounieh and Mount Carmel...
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    was subdivided into six wilayahs or provinces and extended from Byblos and Aqra mountains south, to Latakia and al Alawiyyin mountains north. It also included...
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    For operations against Sheikh Admed of Barzan in the area Diana – Erbil – Aqra – Suri due north to the Turkish frontier, between 15 March and 21 June 1932...
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    weather god of that city. However, Baal of Saphon (the Ugaritic name of Jebel al-Aqra) was most likely understood as the primary manifestation. A series of...
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  • official Mustafa Khoshnaw; an Imadia front, led by Izzat Abd al-Aziz; and an Aqra front, led by Sheikh Sulayman Barzani. All elements would be accountable...
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    al-Oadhi Rabish Bin Ali Wahban † Sheikh Saleh al-Obeidi † Brg Gen. Khaled Al-Aqra Lt. Col Fahad Abdul Rahman Rakan † Units involved Popular Committees Armed...
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