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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
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.
The Land of Tema, Te'-ma, Tema (Arabic: تيماء, romanized: Taymā'; Hebrew: תֵּימָן, romanized: Tēmān, lit. 'south country') or Thaiman is a place mentioned in the Bible [1] [2] where the descendants of Ishmael's son Tema dwelt.
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."
During World War II the main universities like University of Texas and Texas A&M University gained a new national role. The wartime financing of university research, curricular change, campus trainee programs, and postwar veteran enrollments changed the tenor and allowed Texas schools to gain national stature.
A map of the Roman Empire, at its greatest extent, showing the territory of Trajan's Nabataean conquests in red Main article: Arabia Petraea In 106 AD, during the reign of Roman emperor Trajan , the last king of the Nabataean kingdom Rabbel II Soter died, [ 47 ] which may have prompted the official annexation of Nabatea to the Roman Empire. [ 47 ]