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Chapters: Iran, Mesopotamia, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Georgia, Lebanon, Cyprus, Oman, Azerbaijan, Levant, Palestinian Territories, United Arab Emirates, Arab World, Saudi Arabia, South Ossetia, Northern Cyprus, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Armenia, Abkhazia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Yemen, Qatar, Israeli-Occupied Territories, Ancient Near East, Greater Syria, South Caucasus, List of Stock Exchanges in Western Asia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 179. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Israel – Over the past three thousand years, the name “Israel” has meant, in common and religious usage, both the Land of Israel and the entire Jewish nation. According to the Bible, Jacob is renamed Israel after successfully wrestling with an angel of God. The earliest archaeological artifact to mention “Israel” (other than as a personal name) is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated the late 13th century BCE), which refers to a people of that name. The modern country was named Medinat Yisrael, or the State of Israel, after other proposed names, including Eretz Israel (“the Land of Israel”), Zion, and Judea, were rejected. In the early weeks of independence, the government chose the term “Israeli” to denote a citizen of Israel, with the formal announcement made by Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Sharett. Masada in the Judean Desert, a national symbolThe Land of Israel, known in Hebrew as Eretz Yisrael, has been sacred to the Jewish people since Biblical times. According to the Torah, God promised the Land of Israel to the three Patriarchs of the Jewish people; scholars have placed this period in the early 2nd millennium BCE. Based on the Bible, around the 11th century BCE, the first of a series of Israelite kingdoms and states, the Kingdom of Israel, establi…More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9282173

Western Asia: Iran, Mesopotamia, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Georgia, Lebanon, Cyprus, Oman, Azerbaijan, Levant

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