Description: Northern Palestine, including major cities, topographical features, rivers, and major roads. "Palestine, Palaestina, Philistia, or the Holy Land, a country of S. W. Asia, comprising the S. portion of Syria, and bounded on the W. by the Mediterranean, E. by the valley of the Jordan, N. by the mountain ranges of the Lebanon and the glen of the Litany, (Leontes,) and S. by the Desert of Sinai." — W. H. DePuy, 1881
Place Names: Palestine, Tripoli, El Batrun, Juneh, Beirut, Sidon, Saida, Tyre, Sur, Mount Hermon, Hasbeiya, Tomat Niha, Damascus, Baalbek, Heliopolis,
ISO Topic Categories: inlandWaters,
society,
transportation
Keywords: Northern Palestine, physical, transportation, historical, physical features,
topographical, roads, inlandWaters,
society,
transportation, Unknown, 1881
Source: W. H. DePuy, People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge: V.2 (New York, NY: Phillips & Hunt, 1881) 1312
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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