Description: The Old Testament history is embraced between the four great seas of Western Asia, — the Mediterranean, the Black, the Caspian, and the Persian Gulf. The Book of Acts and the early apostolic history includes Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, and the Roman Empire, bordering on the Mediterranean. The Old Testament world runs from the mouth of the Nile to the Persian Gulf on the south and from Mount Sinai to Mount Ararat, near the Caspian Sea. — Smith
Place Names: Southwest Asia, Great Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Kittim, Cyprus, Syria, Aram, Canaan, Sinai, Mesopotamia, Arabian Desert, Assyria, Media, Elam, Chaldea, Babel, Nineveh, Babylonia,
ISO Topic Categories: inlandWaters,
location
Keywords: Western Asia in Early Times, physical, physical features, inlandWaters,
location, Unknown, Old Testament Times
Source: William Walter Smith, The Students' Illustrated Historical Geography of the Holy Land (Philadelphia, PA: The Sunday School Times Company, 1911) 65
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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