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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 ...
In the Russian Tsardom, the word Russia replaced the old name Rus ' in official documents, though the names Rus ' and Russian land were still common and synonymous to it, [54] and often appeared in the form Great Russia (Russian: Великая Россия), which is more typical of the 17th century, [55] whereas the state was also known as ...
Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) [21][22][23] Illyricum (territories near the Adriatic from modern day Slovenia to Albania) [24] India [25] Israel. Italy (Italy generally [26] and the cities of Syracuse [27] and Rome specifically [28])
Orthodox Christianity (official since 10th cent.) Kievan Rus', [a][b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [6][7] was the first East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities [8] in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [9][10] Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, [11][12] and Finnic ...
e. The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russian: Русская православная церковь, romanized: Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Russian: Московский патриархат, romanized: Moskovskiy patriarkhat), [12] is an autocephalous Eastern ...
Website. en.shm.ru. The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (Russian: Собор Василия Блаженного, romanized: Sobor Vasiliya Blazhennogo), known in English as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is an Orthodox church in Red Square of Moscow, and is one of the most popular cultural symbols of Russia. The building, now a museum, is officially ...
The Russian Synodal Bible (Russian: Синодальный перевод, The Synodal Translation) is a Russian non- Church Slavonic translation of the Bible commonly used by the Russian Orthodox Church, Catholic, as well as Russian Baptists [1] and other Protestant communities in Russia. The translation dates to the period 1813–1875, and ...
Christianity in Russia is the most widely professed religion in the country. The largest tradition is the Russian Orthodox Church. According to official sources, there are 170 eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church, 145 of which are grouped in metropolitanates. [1] There are from 500,000 to one million Old Believers, who represent an older ...