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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
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.
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."
This T and O map, from the first printed version of Isidoor's Etymologiae, identifies the three known continents as populated by descendants of Sem , Iafeth and Cham . The following sources attempted to equate the biblical Table of Nations with contemporary identities:
The tool is called Native-Land, and it’s run by Canadian developer Victor G. Temprano. He also runs the company Mapster, which helps create maps for a wide variety of uses.
In 1715 Herman Moll published the Beaver Map, one of the most famous early maps of North America, which he copied from a 1698 work by Nicolas de Fer. In 1763–1767 Captain James Cook mapped Newfoundland. In 1777 Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres created a monumental four volume atlas of North America, Atlantic Neptune.
The names are mentioned together in Ezekiel chapter 38, where Gog is an individual and Magog is his land. [1] The meaning of the name Gog remains uncertain, and in any case, the author of the Ezekiel prophecy seems to attach no particular importance to it. [1]