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The Holy Land
The over-promised land. This territory, the land between
the Mediterranean Sea to the west, the Jordan River to the east, the heights
associated with the Bekaa Valley and the Sea of Galilee to the north, and
the Sinai Wasteland to the south and southwest, has had perhaps the greatest
impact on human history of any other. Certainly it is one of the oldest
continually occupied lands on the planet. Either directly or indirectly,
much of the tension and conflict in the world today stems from the continuing
circumstance that three closely related but trenchantly antagonistic religious
communities regard this land as fundamentally sacred to the very core of
their essence, and cannot walk away from this place without losing a part
of their being. Two disparate ethnic communities are waging what amounts
to a full-scale war over control of this land, with no end in sight. The
Regnal Chronologies Archive is a site devoted to factual presentation of
historical information, so I will stop short of editorializing. But I urge
you, the reader, to look over these lists, and ponder carefully the record
of travail and triumph present in this tiny land for the past 11,000 years.
contains Akko (Acre), Arsuf,
Ashdod,
Ashkelon,
Caesarea,
Dor,
Edom,
Ekron,
Galilee,
Gath,
Gaza,
Haifa,
Israel-Palestine,
the High Priests of the Temple, Jaffa,
Judah,
the Kenites, the Midianites,
the Philistines, the Rechabites,
Salem,
Samaria-(ancient)
Israel, the Samaritan High Priests, and the
Sanhedrin.
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