Allahüekber Daği
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Allahüekber Daği, Turkey ‘God is Greatest Mountain’ from
Allah ‘God’,
ekber ‘greatest’ or ‘almighty’, and
dağ.
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Sunday School Lesson; Lydia; A Committed Woman
Newspaper article from: Sun Reporter, The; 11/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...2005 Lesson: Acts 16: 6-15 PLACES: Troas, Philippi TIME: A.D. 50-51 GOLDEN...Holy Spirits guidance they would reach Troas. Paul traveled and passed through the province of Mysia and finally came to Troas. At nighttime, Paul received a vision...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Footsteps of Paul; Old stones, new truths When Paul set out from Jerusalem on his mission to spread the word about Jesus 2,000 years ago, he fostered a religion he wouldn't recognize today.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 8/28/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Apostle Paul. They are standing at the ancient port of Alexandria Troas. Paul came here more than once, but the port now is in ruin...currents, tides, winds and shipping records from the millennia. Troas is important because Paul left from this port to go to Macedonia...
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CMA featured young musicians' concert in Paul Robeson Hall
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 6/3/2003; ; 660 words
; ...Pryor, president; Joseph D. La Rue, second vice president; Troas J. Alexander, chairman of the Advisory Council; Dr. Edna...Come Unto Me" was beautifully sung by Cherelle Sheppard with Troas Alexander at the piano. The brilliance of Carl Koelling's...
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Pictorial Library of Bible Lands
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Pisidian Antioch Museum, Priene, Sardis, Seleucia, Smyrna, the Manisa Museum, the Smyrna Museum, Tarsus, Thyatira, Troas and Apollo Smintheurn, Troy. CD 9 Greece: Amphipolis, Argos, Athens, Berea and Vergina, Cenchrea, Corinth, Corinth...
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A quotation from the 'Culex' in Boccaccio's 'De Casibus'.(Giovanni Boccaccio)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...medium. (1, 15, 1-2) Tacitly, by moving from Priam's downfall to the departure of the Greeks (including Ulysses) from Troas, he is claiming in these chapters to have scrutinized, in proper chronological order, the subject matter of both the end...
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 "The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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At ground zero, churches do the heavy lifting _ of spirits.
Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 8/16/2002; 700+ words
; ...overall redevelopment of the World Trade Center area. "It will be a place of international pilgrimage," said Bishop Savas of Troas, chancellor of the archdiocese. "It will be witness to our faith in the power of good to overcome the forces of evil...
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Is There Still Room for the DREAM?
Magazine article from: The African American Pulpit; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...freedom through Jesus Christ. We are introduced to the apostle Paul of Tarsus. Paul was about the business of the Lord in Troas. While there, he had a vision of a man in Macedonia calling for help. No doubt Paul felt directed by the Holy Spirit to go...
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From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...made" The Play of the Weather, The Play of Love, and The Four P's. Jasper Heywood "set forth in Englyshe" Seneca's Troas, while he "faithfully Englished" Thyestes. For "the profit of young scholars so faithfully translated into English meter...
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St. Luke, patron of doctors and artists.(Opinion and Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 10/18/2008; 677 words
; ...the Barghesian chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. St. Luke was the constant companion of St. Paul who joined him in Troas around the year 51. They traveled in Macedonia and visited Samothrace, Neapolis, and Philippi. St. Luke was with St. Paul...
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The Second Epistle to the Corinthians
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...portrayal of Paul's ministry there as the template within which to understand 2 Corinthians. Paul's move to ministry in Troas (2 Cor 2:12) is explained by his need to leave Ephesus due to the Demetrius riot described in Acts 19. His foundational...
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Troas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Troas or the Troad , region about ancient Troy...various struggles to control the straits. Troas was the scene of the events of the Iliad...archaeologists a wealth of antiquities. For the Troas of the Bible, see Alexandria Troas .
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Alexandria Troas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alexandria Troas , ancient Greek seaport city, Mysia, NW Asia Minor, called Troas in the Bible. It was important under the Greeks and Romans.
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St. Luke
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Paul began his second missionary journey, about 49 A.D., Luke became a member of the party, joining Paul at the town of Troas and traveling to Macedonia with him (Acts 16: 11-12). Luke then probably remained at Philippi, rejoining Paul when he...
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Trojan War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...final year of the war constitute the main part of the Iliad of Homer. The Trojan War probably reflected a real war (c.1200 BC) between the invading Greeks and the people of Troas, possibly over control of trade through the Dardanelles.
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Scamander
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Scamander , ancient name of the Küçük Menderes River, c.60 mi (95 km) long, NW Turkey. It flows W and NW from the Kaz Daği through the Troas into the Mediterranean Sea. It is frequently mentioned in the Iliad.
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