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... Dynasty 8. Renewed Prosperity 9. Anarchy III. DECLINE AND FALL 1. Loss of Independence 2. Decline 3. Extinction 4. Summary LITERATURE I. The First Period. 1 ...
https://bibleatlas.org/israel.htm
... passed with Lydia under Persian control, 546 B.C. After Alexander the Great, Bithynia became independent, and Nicomedes I, Prusias I and II, and Nicomedes II and III, ruled ...
https://bibleatlas.org/bithynia.htm
... but also against Persia on the East. The nomad Lurs of the present day are practically independent of Persia. The mountain ranges of Luristan increase in height as one approaches the Persian plain ...
https://bibleatlas.org/elam.htm
... , Athens was placed under the supervision of the governor of Macedonia, but was granted local independence in recognition of her great history. As the seat of Greek art and science, Athens ...
https://bibleatlas.org/athens.htm
... , to be again lost in the 12th when the Phoenician towns seem to have established their independence. Sidon however surpassed her sisters in power and exercised a sort of hegemony over the Phoenician ...
https://bibleatlas.org/acco.htm
... regained its importance. In 334 B.C. it surrendered to Alexander the Great who gave it independence, but its period of independence was brief, for 12 years later in 322 B.C. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sardis.htm
... ), since they were not expatriated by the half-tribe of Manasseh, and they retained their independence. David married Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur, who became the mother ...
https://bibleatlas.org/geshur.htm
... almost a blank. After the fall of the Assyrian empire, Cilicia may have regained its independence, at least partially, but it subsequently became a province of the Persian empire, paying ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kue.htm
... According to Esar-haddon the kingdom was founded by Bel-bani son of Adasi, who first made himself independent; Hadad-nirari, however, ascribes its foundation to Zulili. Assyrian merchants and soldiers had already ...
https://bibleatlas.org/assyria.htm
... the coast and formed a confederation of smaller communities, which in the last century of the independent history of Greece attained to great importance (Achaean League) . In Roman times the term ...
https://bibleatlas.org/achaia.htm
... , 65 B.C., by which several cities in Decapolis dated their eras. They were independent of the local tetrarchy, and answerable directly to the governor of Syria. They enjoyed the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/decapolis.htm
... configuration separated into small isolated districts, naturally tended to break up into a series of petty independent states. Still the central position between the Mesopotamian empires on the one hand and Egypt and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/aram-maacah.htm
... configuration separated into small isolated districts, naturally tended to break up into a series of petty independent states. Still the central position between the Mesopotamian empires on the one hand and Egypt and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/aram.htm
... configuration separated into small isolated districts, naturally tended to break up into a series of petty independent states. Still the central position between the Mesopotamian empires on the one hand and Egypt and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mesopotamia.htm
... Rhodes; 20 years later, because of its loyalty to Rome, it became free and independent (1 Maccabees 15:23) . In 53 A.D., during the reign of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lycia.htm
... his dependencies, and finally to fall into the hands of the enemy. Gebal afterward became independent, as is shown by the records of Ramses IX (1442-1423 B.C.) and of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/gebal.htm
... Great it received a top-dressing of Greek culture, and a line of native kings established an independent throne, which lasted until Cappadocia was incorporated in the Roman Empire, 17 A.D. Nine ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cappadocia.htm
... of Pamphylia. 2. Importance: Pamphylia, unless in pre-historic times, was never an independent kingdom; it was subject successively to Lydia, Persia, Macedonia, Pergamos and Rome. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pamphylia.htm
... in its geographical sense in the Anabasis of Xenophon, who informs us that the Pisidians were independent of the king of Persia at the end of the 5th century B.C. Alexander the Great ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pisidia.htm
... . Upon his death, Philetaerus (283-263 B.C.) used this wealth to found the independent Greek dynasty of the Attalid kings. The first of this dynasty to bear the title of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pergamum.htm
... ,000 lambs and 100,000 rams. after the death of Ahab he asserted his independence. Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and the king of Edom joined forces with Jehoram in ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mesha.htm
... , hallowed by the sacred traditions of the past, a dignified and august body, was independent of and uninfluenced by the wavering discordant multitude, and was not affected by the ever-changing public ...
https://bibleatlas.org/areopagus.htm
... . Ariobarzanes, Mithradates and Pharnaces are the recurring names in this dynasty of satraps which acquired independence about 363 and maintained it during the Macedonian period. The man that first made Pontus famous ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pontus.htm
... ( Joshua 13:3 ; Joshua 15:46, 47 ) . It was still independent in the days of Samuel, when, after the defeat of the Israelites, the ark ...
https://bibleatlas.org/azotus.htm
... a district, and boundaries were fixed for them after 232 B.C. Thus, originated the independent state of Galatia, inhabited by three Gaulish tribes, Tolistobogioi, Tektosages and Trokmoi, with ...
https://bibleatlas.org/galatia.htm
