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Tarshish is the name of a village in Lebanon, about 50 km (31 mi) from Beirut. It is located in the Baabda Kadaa at 1,400 m (4,600 ft) elevation. [35] Tarshish is a family name found among Jews of Ashkenazic descent.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Aerial view of old Jaffa Aerial view of old Jaffa and port with Tel Aviv behind Jaffa, also called Japho, Joppa or Joppe in English, is an ancient Levantine port city which is part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, located in its southern part. The city sits atop a naturally elevated outcrop on the ...
Joppa is an eastern suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is bounded on the north by the coast of the Firth of Forth , on the west by Portobello of which it was a suburb when Portobello was a burgh, to the south by the open area south of Milton Road and to the east by Musselburgh in East Lothian .
Joppa is located in northeastern Cullman County at A small portion of the CDP extends north into Marshall County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Joppa CDP has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.1 km 2), of which 1.9 square miles (5.0 km 2) are land and 0.039 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 1.38%, are water.
The Old Joppa Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places as an archeological site in 1979. [3] [7] Joppa was the county seat of Baltimore County from 1712 to 1768. Present-day Harford County was part of Baltimore County until 1773. Joppa's "mile wide harbor" on the Gunpowder River could accommodate the largest ocean-going ships ...
The term Tarshish also figures in the Book of Jonah, where Jonah, to evade God's mission that he preach in Nineveh, boards ship in Jaffa, and sails towards a city of that name. This led some to suggest that there too Carthage was his objective. Much modern research tends to the view, however, that the Tarshish here denotes the Iberian Tartessos.
MD 152 south of Joppa was built around 1940; shortly thereafter, the highway was reconstructed as a wartime access project. The state highway originally had only a partial interchange with I-95; it was expanded to full interchange in the mid 1990s concurrent with the expansion of the highway to a four-lane divided highway through Joppa.
Joppa is an unincorporated community in rural central-western Grainger County, Tennessee, United States. [2] It rests below Joppa Mountain, a subrange located near the southern terminus of the 150 mile (240 km) long Clinch Mountain ridge complex, offering views of five U.S. States and the Great Smoky Mountains.