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... province; to Christendom it is especially known as the home of Nicholas, who was its bishop and the patron saint of the sailors along the coast. Phaselis, on the border of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lycia.htm
... the capital of Lydia, and during the early Christian age it was the home of a bishop. The city continued to flourish until 1402, when it was so completely destroyed by Tamerlane ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sardis.htm
... be dated at all, belong to this time. Beersheba was an important city with a bishop, and Elusa (mentioned by Ptolemy in the 2nd century) was the seat of a ...
https://bibleatlas.org/negev.htm
... Revelation ( Revelation 3:7 ) was there, and it was the seat of a bishop. As in most Asia Minor cities, many Jews lived there, and they possessed a ...
https://bibleatlas.org/philadelphia.htm
... of early Christianity, Patara took but little part, but it was the home of a bishop, and the birthplace of Nicholas, the patron saint of the sailors of the East. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/patara.htm
... made by Josephus (Ant., I, vi, 1) and by the Cyprian bishop Epiphanius (Haer., xxx.25) . In the tablets from Tell el-Amarna it is referred ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cyprus.htm
... the support of Serapis. But Theodosius (391) prohibited idolatry, and led by the bishop, the Serapeum was seized, and smitten by a soldier's battle-axe, the image-which probably represented ...
https://bibleatlas.org/alexandria.htm
... of the church or of the town of Philippi. Early in the 2nd century Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, was condemned as a Christian and was taken to Rome to be thrown to ...
https://bibleatlas.org/philippi.htm
... made a metropolis by Andronicus II (1283-1328): there is a tradition that the first bishop of the church was Onesimus. It played a prominent part in the struggles between the Greeks ...
https://bibleatlas.org/berea.htm
... seat of worship of an Asiatic deity whose name is no longer known. Nicholas, a bishop and the patron saint of sailors, is said to have been buried in a church on ...
https://bibleatlas.org/myra.htm
... first 5 centuries A.D., when it was the seat of a bishopric, and its bishop, Marcian, attended the Council of Chalcedon 451 A.D., It was also the seat ...
https://bibleatlas.org/gerar.htm
... Domitian by setting 2,500 Jews to fight with beasts in the amphitheater. Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea (313-40 A.D.) . In 548 A.D. a massacre of the Christians ...
https://bibleatlas.org/caesarea_philippi.htm
... connected with the trade in purple. It became the seat of a bishopric, and the bishop of Lydda was present at the Council of Nicea. At Lydda, in 415 A.D. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lod.htm
... connected with the trade in purple. It became the seat of a bishopric, and the bishop of Lydda was present at the Council of Nicea. At Lydda, in 415 A.D. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lydda.htm
... name Constantia, and became the metropolitan see of the island. The most famous of its bishops was Epiphanius, the staunch opponent of heresy, who held the see from 367 to 403 ...
https://bibleatlas.org/salamis.htm
... Domitian by setting 2,500 Jews to fight with beasts in the amphitheater. Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea (313-40 A.D.) . In 548 A.D. a massacre of the Christians ...
https://bibleatlas.org/caesarea.htm
... . Under the title of Petra Deserti the Crusaders founded here a bishop's see. The Greek bishop of Petra still has his seat in Kerak. 2. Discription: Kerak stands upon a ...
https://bibleatlas.org/king's_highway.htm
... Paris) . Derbe is mentioned several times in the records of the church councils. A bishop, Daphnus of Derbe, was present at the Council of Constantinople in 381. 2. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/derbe.htm
... the Southwest and the Northwest," but the harbor beside Loutro looks eastward. This led Bishop Wordsworth to identify Phoenix with an open roadstead on the western side of the isthmus on which ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenix.htm
... Laodicea was early the chief bishopric of Phrygia, and about 166 A.D. Sagaris, its bishop, was martyred. In 1071 the city was taken by the Seljuks; in 1119 it ...
https://bibleatlas.org/laodicea.htm
... . Under the title of Petra Deserti the Crusaders founded here a bishop's see. The Greek bishop of Petra still has his seat in Kerak. 2. Discription: Kerak stands upon a ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kir.htm
... left Titus in Crete ( Titus 1:5 ); tradition made the latter its first bishop, and patron saint. 6. The Cretans: Cretans were present, as noted above ...
https://bibleatlas.org/crete.htm
... Helena built the Church of the Annunciation. In crusading times it was the seat of the bishop of Bethscan. It passed into Moslem hands after the disaster to the Crusaders at Chattin ( ...
https://bibleatlas.org/nazareth.htm
... who called it Castellum ad Sanctum Abraham. In 1165 it became the see of a Latin bishop, but 20 years later it fell to the victorious arms of Saladin, and it has ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kiriath-arba.htm
... Ritter, Erdkunde, XV, ii, 1154) . It became the seat of a bishop. Abulfeda (1321 A.D.) says that Rabbah was in ruins at the time of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rabbah.htm
