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... bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." The other products may not have been native to the land of Ophir, but it is certain that the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ophir.htm
... Aegean Sea, West of Caria, rough and rocky in parts, but well watered and productive, though at present not extensively cultivated. Almost one-third of the island is now covered with ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rhodes.htm
... other rivers are very short, but furnish a perennial water-supply to the coast dwellers. The products of the land, as well as the climate, are very varied on account of the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenicia.htm
... variety of climate, while the nature of the disintegrating rocks and the alluvial soil render great productivity possible. Both of the mountain belts in their whole length consist chiefly of cretaceous limestone, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/aram.htm
... variety of climate, while the nature of the disintegrating rocks and the alluvial soil render great productivity possible. Both of the mountain belts in their whole length consist chiefly of cretaceous limestone, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/aram-maacah.htm
... variety of climate, while the nature of the disintegrating rocks and the alluvial soil render great productivity possible. Both of the mountain belts in their whole length consist chiefly of cretaceous limestone, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mesopotamia.htm
... variety of climate, while the nature of the disintegrating rocks and the alluvial soil render great productivity possible. Both of the mountain belts in their whole length consist chiefly of cretaceous limestone, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/syria.htm
... . Thus the climatic conditions were all in favor of a great civilization, and aided its production of monuments. The whole mass of the country being of limestone, and much of it ...
https://bibleatlas.org/egypt.htm
... may be found a bank of vines; but the country is practically treeless: the characteristic product is wheat, and in its cultivation the village population is almost wholly occupied. 4. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/hauran.htm
... . If the Israelites in early times had no direct relations with India, many characteristic Indian products seem to have found their way into Palestinian markets by way of the Arabian and Syrian trade ...
https://bibleatlas.org/india.htm
... of Sicily. Under Roman rule the inhabitants were famous for their industry, especially in the production of textile fabrics, probably of native cotton. The celebrated vestis melitensis was a fine and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/malta.htm
... interior plains down to the sea; the valleys, narrower or wider, were fertile and productive, as were the wide plains of the interior such as the Chiliokomon and Phanaroea. The ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pontus.htm
... " by Josephus (BJ, III, x, 8) . This writer extols the productiveness of the plain. He says the "soil is so fruitful that all sorts of trees ...
https://bibleatlas.org/genneseret.htm
... , the old Greek name of the plain, and several Jewish colonies are proving the wonderful productiveness of the soil. The orange groves of Jaffa are far-famed. "The rose of Sharon ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sharon.htm
... traditional date of the founding (753 B.C.) . The original Roman state was the product of the coalition of a number of adjacent clan-communities, whose names were perpetuated in the Roman ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rome.htm
... . Encyclopedia ASSYRIA a-sir' i-a: I. GEOGRAPHY II. EARLY HISTORY III. CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS IV. POPULATION V. TRADE AND LAW VI. ART VII. MECHANICS VIII. FURNITURE ...
https://bibleatlas.org/assyria.htm
... land which supports a fairly good population still. Wheat, barley and olives are the chief products. But ancient wine presses cut in the rocks testify to the culture of the vine in ...
https://bibleatlas.org/shephelah.htm
... lie the modern city of Shiraz and the ruins of Persepolis and Pasargadae are well watered and productive. Nearer the desert, however, cultivation grows scanty for want of water. Persia was ...
https://bibleatlas.org/persia.htm
... : (1 ) The chief occupations of the Sabeans were raiding and trade. The chief products of their country are enumerated in Isaiah 60:6 , which agrees with the Assyrian inscriptions ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sheba.htm
... The shore-plain to the North of these hills is narrow, but remarkably fertile. 3. Products: Cyprus is richly endowed by nature. Its fruits and flowers were famous in antiquity. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cyprus.htm
... is still rising slowly. 3. The Making of Egypt: Cultivable Egypt is altogether the product of the Nile, every particle of the soil having been brought down by the river from ...
https://bibleatlas.org/nile_river.htm
... needed the timber and the skilled artisans that Hiram could furnish, and Hiram needed the food products of the land of Israel ( 1 Kings 5 ) . Tyre was at this time noted ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tyre.htm
... the first two Ptolemies and Euergetes Alexandria reached its highest prosperity, receiving through Lake Mareotis the products of Upper Egypt, reaching by the Great Sea all the wealth of the West, while ...
https://bibleatlas.org/alexandria.htm
... fr. 36), "admirably fertile territory, a lake, rivers, dockyards and productive gold mines," whereas Philippi lies, as we have seen, some 9 miles inland ...
https://bibleatlas.org/philippi.htm
... to Africa, and its flora and fauna are those of that continent. Of all the products of the soil by far the most important is the date palm. It flourishes in every ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kedar.htm
