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Lihyan (Arabic: لحيان, Liḥyān; Greek: Lechienoi), [1] also called Dadān or Dedan, was a powerful and highly organized ancient Arab kingdom that played a vital cultural and economic role in the north-western region of the Arabian Peninsula and used Dadanitic language. [2]
Dedan has several different meanings in the Hebrew Bible. Dedan (now part of Al-'Ula, Saudi Arabia) was an oasis and city-state of north-western Arabia. The people of Dedan are called Dedanim or Dedanites. Dedan is also the name of the son of Raamah and the son of Jokshan.
Dedan, an ancient Arabian city-state located in the oasis of al-ʿUla; for the kingdom in its later phase, see Lihyan; for the city in the Bible, see Dedan (Bible) Dedan State, a former princely state in Gujarat, western India; Dedan Kimathi, a leader of the Kenyan Mau Mau revolt; Dedan, a major antagonist of the independent video game Off
The Fifth Class princely state, in Sorath prant, was ruled by Baberia Kotila kathi Chieftains.. In 1901 it comprised the town and eleven other villages, covering 50 square miles, with a combined population of 4,394, yielding 59,405 Rupees state revenue (1903-4, about half from land), paying 4,181 tribute to the Gaikwar Baroda State und Unamamuli (1225).
1823 map by Robert Wilkinson (see also 1797 version here). Prior to the mid-19th century, Shem was associated with all of Asia, Ham with all of Africa, and Japheth with all of Europe. The Genesis flood narrative tells how Noah and his three sons ( Shem , Ham , and Japheth ), together with their wives, were saved from the Deluge to repopulate ...
A map of the Neo-Assyrian Empire under Shalmaneser III (dark green) and Esarhaddon (light green) In the traditions of the Assyrian Church of the East, they are descended from Abraham's grandson, Dedan son of Jokshan, progenitor of the ancient Assyrians. [63] However, there is no other historical basis for this assertion.
He states that a river and region "in the country of Moors" was still called Phut by the Greeks, but that it had been renamed "from one of the sons of Mesraim, who was called Lybyos". Canaan: Judea, which he called "from his own name Canaan". Sidonius (Sidon): The city of Sidonius, "called by the Greeks Sidon".
The 19th-century "World as Peopled by the Descendants of Noah", showing "Tarshish" as the countryside around Tarsus in southeastern Anatolia. Esarhaddon, Aššur Babylon E (AsBbE) [5] preserves "All the kings from the lands surrounded by sea – from the country Iadanana (Cyprus) and Iaman, as far as Tarsisi (Tarshish) – bowed to my feet."