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... design of the present work scarcely permits more than a passing allusion to Syracuse, the most brilliant Greek colony on the shores of the Western Mediterranean, where Paul halted three days, on ...
https://bibleatlas.org/syracuse.htm
... the chief port for the export trade. In Roman times, Smyrna was considered the most brilliant city of Asia Minor, successfully rivaling Pergamos and Ephesus. Its streets were wide and paved ...
https://bibleatlas.org/smyrna.htm
... built, but the finest cut in the solid rock of the cliff. Doric architecture and brilliant decorative painting adorn these tombs. LITERATURE Herodotus ii; Josephus, Apion; Thrige, Res ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cyrene.htm
... course by a luxuriant growth of oleander which, in season, lights up the valley with brilliant color. The length of the stream, taking no account of its innumerable windings, is ...
https://bibleatlas.org/jabbok_river.htm
... ruins. Here in 1799 the French general Junot was assailed by the Turks. After his brilliant victory over the Turks at Tabor, Napoleon visited Nazareth. The place suffered some damage in ...
https://bibleatlas.org/nazareth.htm
... hold on Thrace, Illyria and Greece, Alexander turned eastward and, in a series of brilliant campaigns, overthrew the Persian empire. The battle of the Granicus (334 B.C.) ...
https://bibleatlas.org/macedonia.htm
... , the wild goose, bustard, woodcock, snipe, pigeon, turtledove, and numerous brilliantly colored waders. The water-courses are full of fish, among them being the barbel, silurus ...
https://bibleatlas.org/elam.htm
... conquest of Alexander. The Macedonian Age of the Ptolemies was one of the richest and most brilliant at its start, but soon faded under bad rulers till it fell hopelessly to pieces and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/egypt.htm
... the advantage of having the use of the port of Ezion-geber on the Red Sea. His brilliant reign lasted 43 years. (3 ) The list of kings who succeeded him contains the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tyre.htm
