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The Aramaeans, or Arameans, were a Semitic, seminomadic and pastoralist people who originated and had lived in upper Mesopotamia and Syria. Aramaeans have never had a unified empire; they were divided in independent kingdoms all across the Near East. Yet to these Aramaeans befell the privilege of imposing their language and culture upon the entire Near East and beyond. Scholars even have used the term 'Aramaization' for the Syro-Mesopotamian peoples, languages and cultures that have been made 'Aramean'. Arameans - ...

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• Arameans - 14th century BC
• Arameans - 12th century BC
• Arameans - 11th century B.C.
• Arameans - 10th – 9th centuries BC
• Arameans - From 8th century BC
• Arameans - Religion and art
• Arameans - Modern
• Arameans - External references

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Aram Damascus was an Aramean state centered around Damascus in Syria, from the late 12th century BCE to 734 BCE. Sources for this state come from texts that can be divided into three categories: Assyrian annals, Aramean texts, and the Hebrew Bible. The greatest portion of the textual sources come from Assyria. There are, however, often several copies of the same texts so the material of the texts is rather limited. Most of the texts are annals from the Assyrian kings Shalmaneser III, Adad-Nirari III, ...

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The Arab Revolt (1916–1918) was initiated by Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen. After the Turkish nationalist reform party Young Turks coup in 1908, Ottoman politics changed and discrimination against non-Turkish inhabitants increased. The Ottomans joined the Central Powers in World War I in 1914. Many Arab nationalist figures in Damascus and ...

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The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). Persia's earliest known kingdom was the proto-Elamite Empire, followed by the Medes; but it is the Achaemenid Empire that emerged under Cyrus the Great that is usually the earliest to be called "Persian." Successive states in Iran before 1935 are collectively called the Persian Empire by Western historians. Persian Empire - The name Persia. Persia has long ...

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• Persian Empire - The first Persian state: Achaemenid Persia 648 BC-330 BC
• Persian Empire - Hellenistic Persia 330 BC-150 BC
• Persian Empire - Parthian Persia 150 BC-AD 226
• Persian Empire - Sassanid Persia AD 226-650
• Persian Empire - Islam and Persia 650-1219
• Persian Empire - Persia under the Turkic rule 1037-1219
• Persian Empire - Persia under the Mongols and their successors 1219-1500
• Persian Empire - A new Persian empire: the Safavids 1500-1722
• Persian Empire - Persia and Europe 1722-1914
• Persian Empire - Persia in World War One 1914-1918
• Persian Empire - Persia after World War One 1919-1935
• Persian Empire - List of Kings and Emperors of Persia

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Ananias is the Greek form of Hananiah (Hebrew for "Yahweh is gracious"), or Ananiah, a name occurring several times in the Old Testament and Apocrypha (Nehemiah 3:23, 1 Chronicles 15:23, Tobit 5:12. etc.), and three times in the New Testament. Special mention need be made only of the bearers of the name in the New Testament: A member of the first Christian community, who, with his wife Sapphira, was miraculously punished by Peter with sudden death for hypocrisy and falsehood (Acts 5:1-10; cf. Joshua 7:1 ff.)

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Algeria: 7,500,000 Tunisia:    200,000 Libya:    250,000+ Mauretania:    80,000 Egypt:    10,000 France:    1,000,000 Spain:    50,000 Israel:    50,000   Semitic The Berbers (also called Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afro ...

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• Berber - Saharan Northwest Africans
• Berber - Religions and beliefs
• Berber - History
• Berber - Berbers and the Islamic conquest
• Berber - Berbers in Al-Andalus
• Berber - Modern-day Berbers
• Berber - The Arabization of Northwest Africa
• Berber - Famous Berbers
• Berber - In ancient times
• Berber - In medieval times
• Berber - In modern times
• Berber - Famous people who were either Berber or Punic
• Berber - Famous people who may have had some Berber ancestors

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Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions of Muhammad Household of Muhammad Prophets of Islam Qur'an • Hadith • Sharia Jurisprudence Biographies of Muhammad Sunni • Shi'a • Sufi Art • Architecture Cities • Calendar Science • Philosophy Religious leaders Women in Islam Political Islam • Jihad Liberal Islam

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• Ali ibn Husayn - Death
• Ali ibn Husayn - The Imamah
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• Ali ibn Husayn - Sunni References

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Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions of Muhammad Household of Muhammad Prophets of Islam Qur'an • Hadith • Sharia Jurisprudence • Theology Biographies of Muhammad Sunni • Shi'a • Sufi Art • Architecture Cities • Calendar Science � ...

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• Ali - Birth
• Ali - Early life
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• Ali - The death of Muhammad 632 CE
• Ali - Inheritance
• Ali - Succession to the caliphate
• Ali - Caliphate
• Ali - Death
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• Ali - Legacy
• Ali - Muslim view

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Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (ca. 1895-July 4, 1974, أمين الحسيني, alternatively known as al-Husseini, el-Husseini, Al-Hajj Amin or Haj Amin), was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim religious leader. A member of Jerusalem's most prominent family, his most important positions were as Mufti of Jerusalem and President of the Supreme Muslim Council. Known as the "Grand Mufti of Jerusalem", he received this title in 1921 after the death of his father (the Mufti of Jerusalem) under the auspi ...

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• Amin al-Husayni - The Holocaust
• Amin al-Husayni - Post-war activities
• Amin al-Husayni - Mufti's influence
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Adad-nirari III (also Adad-narari) was King of Assyria from 811 to 783 BC. He was the son and successor of Shamshi-Adad V, and was apparently quite young at the time of his accession, because for the first five years of his reign his mother Sammuramat acted as regent, which may have given rise to the legend of Semiramis. Adad-nirari's youth, and the struggles his father had faced early in his reign, caused a serious weakening for the Assyrian rulership over Mesopotamia, and gave way to the ambitions of the m ...

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Amr ibn al-'Ās (Arabic: عمرو بن العاص) (d. 663 CE) was an Arab military commander who is most noted for leading the Islamic conquest of Egypt in 640-41. Amr was married to Umm Khultum bint Ukba ibn Abi Mayyath - he had divorced her when she embraced Islam. She then re-married Umar ibn al-Khattab. His son was Abdullah ibn Amr and his mother was Layla bint Harmalah al-`Anaziyyah. Amr was a contemporary of the prophet Muhammad, who rose quickly through the Makkan hierarchy follow ...

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(עָמוֹס "Burden", Standard Hebrew ʿAmos, Tiberian Hebrew ʿĀmôs) was a person in the Bible, and putative author of the speeches reported in the Book of Amos (for Bible citation Amo). v He is one of the twelve minor prophets. The only direct information about him comes from the biblical book of Amos. Amos prophet - Prophetic Calling. Amos 1:1 says he was "among the shepherds of Tekoa", this is likely to refer to modern Tekua, about 12 miles south-east of Bethlehem. He is often a ...

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• Amos prophet - Audience
• Amos prophet - Message
• Amos prophet - Literary Style

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The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים transliteration: Milhemet Sheshet Hayamim), also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Six Days' War, or June War, was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. It began when Israel launched what it considered a pre-emptive attack against Egypt, following the latter's closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and the deployment of troops in the Sinai near the Israeli border, and after months of increasingly tense bord ...

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• Six-Day War - Background
• Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war
• Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies
• Six-Day War - Warfare
• Six-Day War - Preliminary Air Attack
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• Six-Day War - West Bank
• Six-Day War - Golan Heights
• Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea
• Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation
• Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims
• Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war
• Six-Day War - U.S. and British support
• Six-Day War - Soviet instigation
• Six-Day War - Footnotes

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The Nabataeans were a trading people of ancient Arabia, whose oasis settlements in the time of Josephus gave the name of Nabatene to the borderland between Syria and Arabia, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. Their loosely-controlled trading network, which centered on strings of oases and the routes that linked them, had no securely defined boundaries in the surrounding desert. Nabataeans - Culture. Thousands of graffiti and inscriptions document the area of Nabataean culture and testify to wi ...

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• Nabataeans - List of Nabatean kings
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The Republic of Lebanon, or Lebanon (لبنان), is a small, largely mountainous country in the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east, and Israel to the south, with a narrow coastline along its western edge. The flag of Lebanon features the Lebanon Cedar in green against a wide, white stripe backdrop, with two thinner red stripes alongside. The name Lebanon (also "Loubnan" or "Lebnan") is derived from the Aramaic word laban, meaning ...

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• Lebanon - Civil War 1975-1990
• Lebanon - Cedar Revolution Intifada of Independence
• Lebanon - Withdrawal of Syrian troops
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• Lebanon - Demographics
• Lebanon - Culture
• Lebanon - Foreign relations

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The Necronomicon is the title of a fictional book created by H.P. Lovecraft and often featured in stories based on the Cthulhu mythos inspired by his works. However, some people believe in the existence of an actual ancient text called the Necronomicon which may or may not fit the description given in Lovecraft's fiction. Necronomicon - The book. Lovecraft often referenced fictional works in his horror fiction, a practice common among subsequent fantasy authors like Jorge Luis Borges and Willi ...

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• Necronomicon - Criticism
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• Necronomicon - The Necronomicon as a real book
• Necronomicon - References to the Necronomicon
• Necronomicon - Commercially available books titled Necronomicon

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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان, islāmī jamhūriya i pākistān), or Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستان, pākistān) is a country located in South Asia that overlaps onto the Greater Middle East and Central Asia. The country borders Iran (Persia), Afghanistan, China, India and the Arabian Sea. The name of the country "Pakistan" in Urdu and Persian means Land of the Pure. With around 163 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country with the secon ...

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• Pakistan - History
• Pakistan - Ancient History
• Pakistan - Arrival of Islam
• Pakistan - Pre-colonial History
• Pakistan - British rule
• Pakistan - Independence and After
• Pakistan - Politics
• Pakistan - Domestic Politics
• Pakistan - Foreign Relations
• Pakistan - Political History
• Pakistan - Geography
• Pakistan - Economy
• Pakistan - Overview
• Pakistan - Macroeconomic Reform and Prospects
• Pakistan - Tourism
• Pakistan - Demographics
• Pakistan - Population Statistics
• Pakistan - Religion
• Pakistan - Languages
• Pakistan - Ethnic Groups
• Pakistan - Subdivisions
• Pakistan - Society and Culture
• Pakistan - Roots
• Pakistan - Film Television & Music
• Pakistan - Globalization
• Pakistan - Sports
• Pakistan - Mercantile Culture

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations
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• Paul of Tarsus - Consultations with the Apostles
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• Paul of Tarsus - Arrest Rome and later life
• Paul of Tarsus - Paul's trip to Rome imprisonment and death
• Paul of Tarsus - Theological teachings
• Paul of Tarsus - Social views
• Paul of Tarsus - Writings
• Paul of Tarsus - The Legendary tradition
• Paul of Tarsus - Alternative views
• Paul of Tarsus - Christianity as mystery religion
• Paul of Tarsus - Paul as usurper of the Apostles
• Paul of Tarsus - Gnostic
• Paul of Tarsus - Paul as inclusionist
• Paul of Tarsus - New Perspective on Paul
• Paul of Tarsus - Agent of Rome?
• Paul of Tarsus - Notes

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Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions of Muhammad Household of Muhammad Prophets of Islam Qur'an • Hadith • Sharia Jurisprudence Biographies of Muhammad Sunni • Shi'a • Sufi Art • Architecture Cities • Calendar Science • Philosophy Religious leaders Women in Islam Politi ...

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• Qur'an - The language of the Qur'an
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• Qur'an - Stylistic attributes
• Qur'an - The beginnings of the suras
• Qur'an - The temporal order of Quranic verses
• Qur'an - Similarities between Quran & Bible
• Qur'an - Origin and development of the Qur'an
• Qur'an - According to Islamic scholars
• Qur'an - According to non-Muslim scholars
• Qur'an - Interpretation of the Qur'an
• Qur'an - 'Created' vs. 'uncreated' Qur'an
• Qur'an - Qur'an recitation
• Qur'an - Schools of recitation
• Qur'an - The Qur'an and Islamic culture
• Qur'an - Writing and printing the Qur'an
• Qur'an - Literature

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The Crusades were a series of several military campaigns—usually sanctioned by the Papacy—that took place during the 11th through 13th centuries. Originally, they were Roman Catholic endeavors to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims, but some were directed against other Europeans, such as the Fourth Crusade against Constantinople, the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars ...

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• Crusade - Historical background
• Crusade - Historical context
• Crusade - The major crusades
• Crusade - First Crusade
• Crusade - Second Crusade
• Crusade - Third Crusade
• Crusade - Fourth Crusade
• Crusade - Albigensian Crusade
• Crusade - Children's Crusade
• Crusade - Fifth Crusade
• Crusade - Sixth Crusade
• Crusade - Seventh Crusade
• Crusade - Eighth Crusade
• Crusade - Ninth Crusade
• Crusade - Crusades in Baltic and Central Europe
• Crusade - Crusade legacy
• Crusade - Europe
• Crusade - Islamic world
• Crusade - Jewish community
• Crusade - The Caucasus
• Crusade - Usage of the term crusade
• Crusade - Popular reputation
• Crusade - Eastern Orthodoxy
• Crusade - References and further reading

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Antioch on the Orontes (Greek Αντιοχεια ἡ επι Δαφνη) is located on the eastern side (left bank) of the Orontes River about 20 miles from the sea and its port, Seleucia of Pieria (Suedia, now Samandagi). It was founded as a Greek city near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who made it the capital of his empire in Syria. Seleucus I had served as one of Alexander the Great's generals, and the name Antiochus occu ...

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• Antioch - Geography
• Antioch - History of Antioch
• Antioch - Prehistory
• Antioch - Hellenistic age
• Antioch - Roman period
• Antioch - Early Christian-Byzantine period
• Antioch - Archaeology

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