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... the modern Corfu), which, as a way-station to and from Sicily, always held preeminence among the Ionian islands; but there can be little doubt that, if his plan of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/nicopolis.htm
... that even "Hellene" stood not so much for a distinction in race, as for preeminence of culture, in contrast to the despised "Barbarian." Hence, there was much ...
https://bibleatlas.org/greece.htm
... , connected with "Warren's tunnel" described elsewhere (see SILOAM; ZION) . The preeminent position of importance which Gihon held in the eyes of the earlier inhabitants of Jerusalem is shown ...
https://bibleatlas.org/gihon_2.htm
... . The honorable record of the church at Antioch as the mother-church of GentileChristianity gave her a preeminence which she long enjoyed. The most distinguished of her later sons was John Chrysostom. The ...
https://bibleatlas.org/syrian_antioch.htm
... Muller) . It was modeled after the great school of Athens, but excelled, being preeminently the "university of progress" (Mahaffy) . Here for the first time is seen ...
https://bibleatlas.org/alexandria.htm
... 650 A.D. it was the seat of the Omayyad caliphs, and enjoyed a position of preeminence in the Moslem world. Later it was supplanted by Bagdad, and in the 10th century ...
https://bibleatlas.org/damascus.htm
... see BOTANY) . This district in many parts, especially on its eastern slopes, is preeminently a pastoral land, and flocks of sheep and goats abound, invading in the spring even ...
https://bibleatlas.org/judah.htm
... has the largest percentage of Jewish inhabitants, and Antioch among the towns of Syria had the preeminence. In Damascus, which seems to have had a Jewish quarter or Jewish bazaars in the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/dispersion.htm
... 650 A.D. it was the seat of the Omayyad caliphs, and enjoyed a position of preeminence in the Moslem world. Later it was supplanted by Bagdad, and in the 10th century ...
https://bibleatlas.org/straight_street.htm
