Description: Southern 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 mt.-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, Ramoth, Gilead, Jacob's Well, Hesban, Heshbon, Sebbeh, El Khulil, Hebron, El Kuds, Jerusalem, Yafa, Japho, Joppa, Gaza, Bahr Lut, Dead Sea, Mt. of Olives, Jeric
ISO Topic Categories: inlandWaters,
oceans,
society
Keywords: Southern Palestine, physical, transportation, historical, physical features,
topographical, roads, inlandWaters,
oceans,
society, Unknown, 1881
Source: W. H. DePuy, People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge: V.2 (New York, NY: Phillips & Hunt, 1881) 1313
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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