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Kirjath-huzoth

(Encyclopedia)Kirjath-huzoth kûrˈjăth-hyo͞oˈzŏth [key], unidentified place E of the Dead Sea. Num. 22.39. ...

Arnon

(Encyclopedia)Arnon ärˈnŏn [key], river of Jordan, entering the east side of the Dead Sea, called today Wadi Mojib. ...

Baal-zephon

(Encyclopedia)Baal-zephon bāˈəl-zēˈfŏn [key], in the Bible, place near the Israelites' crossing of the Red Sea. ...

Chorazin

(Encyclopedia)Chorazin kōrāˈzĭn [key], city NW of the Sea of Galilee, denounced by Jesus in the New Testament. ...

Kuban

(Encyclopedia)Kuban ko͞obănˈ, –bänˈ, Rus. ko͞obäˈnyə [key], river, c.570 mi (920 km) long, rising in the Greater Caucasus on the western slopes of Mt. Elbrus, S European Russia, and flowing north in a wi...

Murmansk

(Encyclopedia)Murmansk mo͝ormänskˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 468,000), capital of Murmansk region, NW European Russia, on the Kola Gulf of the Barents Sea. It is the terminus of the Northeast Passage and the world'...

Masefield, John

(Encyclopedia)Masefield, John mās– [key], 1878–1967, English poet. He went to sea as a youth and later spent several years in the United States. In 1897 he returned to England and was on the staff of the Manch...

Bosporus

(Encyclopedia)Bosporus –pərəs [key] [Gr.,=ox ford, in reference to the story of Io], Turk. Boğaziçi, strait, c.20 mi (30 km) long and c.2,100 ft (640 m) wide at its narrowest, separating European from Asian T...

Spartivento, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Spartivento, Cape spärtēvĕnˈtō [key], southeastern extremity of the “toe” of Italy, in Calabria, extending into the Ionian Sea. ...

Remeth

(Encyclopedia)Remeth rēˈməth [key], in the Bible, town of Issachar, near the Sea of Galilee. Alternate forms are Jarmuth and Ramoth. ...
 

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