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... republican regime it recovered in fact the authority of which it was deprived in theory. The controlling power of the senate is the most significant feature of the republican government, although it was ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rome.htm
... towns, at least as far North as Gebal (Byblus), as appears in the control that Hiram had over the Lebanon forests in the time of David and Solomon. Hiram was ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tyre.htm
... of the Reliespont. The country was overcome by Croesus, and passed with Lydia under Persian control, 546 B.C. After Alexander the Great, Bithynia became independent, and Nicomedes I, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/bithynia.htm
... . We shall see below that the Phrygians did occupy this side of the Sultan Dagh, controlling the road at a critical point. The Seleucid colonists were Greeks, Jews and Phrygians, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pisidian_antioch.htm
... the impending struggle with Rome. The republic had acquired Pergamus in 133 B.C. and assumed control of Western Asia Minor. There were three Roman armies in different parts of the peninsula when ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pontus.htm
... archon in 594 B.C. and gave the state a constitution. The tyrant Pisistratus was in control permanently from 541 to 527 B.C.; his son Hipparchus was assassinated in 514. Clisthenes ...
https://bibleatlas.org/athens.htm
... plague. The fall of Babylon gave another short period of independence, but the Persians gained control without difficulty, and Sidon was prominent in the Persian period as the leading naval power among ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sidon_the_great.htm
... . 2 Kings 17:6 . Strong's Hebrew H2477: Chalach an area under Assyr. control ...
https://bibleatlas.org/halah.htm
... the land appears to have lapsed into primitive conditions. Although lawlessness and want of any central control may account for much of the retrogression, yet it is probable that Professor Ellsworth Huntington ( ...
https://bibleatlas.org/negev.htm
... waters" ( 2 Samuel 12:27 ) . This may mean that he had secured control of the water supply. In the preceding verse he calls it the "royal city. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rabbah.htm
... kings for their headquarters in Syria. An army camped there had abundance of water in the control of the copious springs that go to form the Orontes. The Egyptians coming from the South ...
https://bibleatlas.org/riblah.htm
... difficult to manage. In 100 A.D., at Agrippa's death, the Romans assumed direct control. After the fall of Jerusalem, the Sanhedrin retreated to Galilee, first to Sepphoris, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tiberias.htm
... oriental world brought it of their wealth. In time the temple possessed valuable lands; it controlled the fishcries; its priests were the bankers of its enormous revenues. Because of its strength ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ephesus.htm
... a Hebrew ethnarch. By the days of Augustus a Council of Elders (gerusia) had control, presided over by 71 archons. Because of their wealth, education and social position they ...
https://bibleatlas.org/alexandria.htm
... high officials at court were the rab-saki or "vizier," and the rab-sa-risi or "controller," the rabhcaric (RAB-SARIS (which see)) of the Old Testament. The ...
https://bibleatlas.org/assyria.htm
... plague. The fall of Babylon gave another short period of independence, but the Persians gained control without difficulty, and Sidon was prominent in the Persian period as the leading naval power among ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sidon.htm
... a specialty of the Phoenicians, and they were for centuries the leading producers, since they controlled the sources of supply of the copper and tin used in its manufacture. The remains of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenicia.htm
... the land appears to have lapsed into primitive conditions. Although lawlessness and want of any central control may account for much of the retrogression, yet it is probable that Professor Ellsworth Huntington ( ...
https://bibleatlas.org/negeb.htm
... and Greece, under the name of Achea, was made a province and placed under the control of the governor of Macedonia. In 27 B.C., when the administration of the provinces ...
https://bibleatlas.org/macedonia.htm
