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Ephesus (Greek: Ἔφεσος Ephesos) was a Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia. Paul of Tarsus lived there for several years, and also wrote an Epistle to the Ephesians . One of the Seven churches of Asia to whom the first part of the Book of Revelation is addressed ( Revelation 2:1–7 ).
c. 555: Procopius, Of the Buildings of Justinian: [181] "In Palestine there is a city named Neapolis, above which rises a high mountain, called Garizin. This mountain the Samaritans originally held; and they had been wont to go up to the summit of the mountain to pray on all occasions, not because they had ever built any temple there, but ...
There are many cities in the US named Florence, but this is the only one named after the Italian city. All the others were named after people. [10] Genoa: Genoa, New York [10] Genoa, Nebraska: Genoa, Nevada: Genoa, Wisconsin: Imola: Imola, California [5] La Verna: Alverno, Wisconsin [23] Lido di Venezia: Lido Beach, New York [57] Lodi: Lodi ...
Palestine (/ ˈ p æ l ɪ s t iː n / PAL-ist-een) is a city in and the seat of Anderson County in the U.S. state of Texas. [5] It was named after Palestine, Illinois, by preacher Daniel Parker, who had migrated from that town. [6]
Nablus: Originally named Mabartha or Mamorpha, the town was renamed to Flavia Neapolis after 72 AD by the Romans who had destroyed the nearby ancient city of Shechem (which is located in the current city of Nablus). After the Early Muslim Conquests in 636 AD, it was Arabicized to Nablus. Seilun, Kh.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
Paterson, New Jersey, has its southern half of the city nicknamed Little Ramallah, with an Arab American population estimated as high as 20,000 in 2015. [17] It is one of the most concentrated areas of Palestinian Americans in the entire United States. [18] It is also called Little Istanbul, since it also has a growing Turkish American community.