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Abila
Abila, also spelled Abyla, may refer to: Places * Abila (Decapolis), Abila in the Decapolis, ancient city in the Levant * Abila Lysaniou, capital of ancient Abilene, northwest of present-day Damascus, Syria * Abila (Peraea), archaeological site in Jordan * Ávila, ''Abila'', Latin name of Ávila, Spain * Abyla, Roman colony in the province of Mauretania Tingitana * Mount Abyla, Mount Abila, mountain in Ceuta, autonomous city of Spain, in Africa Other * Abila (grasshopper), ''Abila'' (grasshopper), a genus of grasshoppers See also * Abela, a surname * Abilene (biblical) {{dab, geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abila (Decapolis)
Abila, distinguished as Abila in the Decapolis (, ''Abila Dekapoleos''), and also known for a time as Seleucia (, ''Seleúkeia''), and Abila Viniferos ( by Eusebios, by Hieronymus Abela Vini fertilis), was a city in the Decapolis; the site, now referred to as (; also Quwaylibah, Qualibah), occupies two Tell (archaeology), tells, Tell al-Abila and Khirbet Tell Umm al-Amad. The site was submitted to the list of tentative World Heritage sites under criteria I, III and IV on June 18, 2001, by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Etymology The name "Abila" is derived from the Semitic word Abel (in Hebrew, "meadow" and in Arabic, "green growth"). The largest site is located amidst verdant agricultural fields near the modern spring. Roman temples, Byzantine churches and early mosques lie amidst olive groves and wheat fields. The name of the south hill, Umm al-Amad, means "Mother of the Columns", where large columns can be found. Geology The natural stone of the Transjordan (reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abila Lysaniou
Abila Lysaniou or Abila Lysaniae or Abila () was an ancient city, on the Abana River and capital of ancient Abilene, Coele-Syria. Location The site contains ruins of a temple, aqueducts, and other remains, and inscriptions, on the banks of the river. Though the names Abel and Abila differ in derivation and in meaning, their similarity has given rise to the tradition that this was the place of Abel's burial. The city is mentioned in the New Testament ( Luke 3:1). According to Josephus, Abilene was a separate Iturean kingdom until AD 37, when it was granted by Caligula to Agrippa I; in 52 Claudius granted it to Agrippa II. The site is currently that of the village of Souq Wadi Barada (called ''Abil-es-Suk'' by early Arab geographers), circa northwest of Damascus, Syria. It has also been identified by some as the village of Abil just south of Homs in central Syria. The city's surname is derived from Lysanias, a governor of the region. William Smith cites a dissertation in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abila (Peraea)
Abila () was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in the Plains of Moab, later Perea (Holy Land), Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea. The site is identified with modern Khirbet el-Kafrayn, Jordan, and is present on the Madaba Map as an unnamed icon.Glueck (1943), pp. 7–26 (see 15, 21). There is a widely supported theory that in the Hebrew Bible, it is referred to as Abel-Shittim, as well as in the shorter forms Shittim and Ha-Shittim.Thomson (1886)Glueck (1951), p. 378.Glueck (1943), p. 15.Miller & Tucker (1974)Harrison (1983)MacDonald (2000) Biblical Abel-Shittim Abel-Shittim, Hebrew language, Hebrew meaning "Meadow of the Acacias", is found only in the Book of Numbers (); but Ha-Shittim (Hebrew meaning "The Acacias"), evidently the same place, is mentioned in Numbers, Book of Joshua, Joshua, and Book of Micah, Micah (, , ). It was the forty-second and last Stations of the Exodus, encampment of the Israelites, associated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abila (grasshopper)
''Abila'' is a genus of lubber grasshoppers in the family Acrididae Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedi .... There are at least four described species in ''Abila''. They occur in South America. Species These four species belong to the genus ''Abila'': * '' Abila bolivari'' Giglio-Tos, 1900 * '' Abila christianeae'' Carbonell, 2002 * '' Abila descampsi'' Carbonell, 2002 * '' Abila latipes'' Stål, 1878 References Further reading * * * * Romaleidae Orthoptera of South America Taxa named by Carl Stål {{romaleidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Abyla
Monte Hacho is a low mountain that overlooks the Spanish city of Ceuta, on the north coast of Africa. Monte Hacho is positioned on the Mediterranean coast at the Strait of Gibraltar opposite Gibraltar, and along with the Rock of Gibraltar is claimed by some to be one of the Pillars of Hercules (the other candidate for the southern pillar being Jebel Musa). According to the legend, Hercules pushed apart the two mountains and created a link between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Abila or abyla, Collier's_New_Encyclopedia_(1921) In classical civilization it was possibly known as Mons Abila (Mount Abila or Abyla), although this title could refer to Jebel Musa instead. Monte Hacho is located on the Península de Almina and topped by a fort, the Fortaleza de Hacho, which was first built by the Byzantines, before being added to by the Arabs, Portuguese and Spanish. It is now occupied by the Spanish army. Monte Hacho also has a convent, Ermita de San Antonio, and Monumento del Ll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ávila
Ávila ( , , ) is a Spanish city located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila. It lies on the right bank of the Adaja river. Located more than 1,130 m above sea level, the city is the highest provincial capital in Spain. Distinctively known by its medieval walls, Ávila is sometimes called the ''Town of Stones and Saints'', and it claims that it is one of the towns with the highest number of Romanesque and Gothic churches per capita in Spain. It has complete and prominent medieval town walls, built in the Romanesque style; writer José Martínez Ruiz, in his book ''El alma castellana'' ("The Castilian Soul"), described it as "perhaps the most 16th-century town in Spain". The town is also known as ''Ávila de los Caballeros'', ''Ávila del Rey'' and ''Ávila de los Leales'' ("Ávila of the knights", "Ávila of the king", "Ávila of the loyal ones"), each of these epithets being present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abyla
Abyla was the pre-Roman name of Ad Septem Fratres (actual Ceuta of Spain). Ad Septem Fratres, usually shortened to ''Septem'' or ''Septa'', was a Roman Empire, Roman Roman colonia, colony in the Roman province, province of Mauretania Tingitana and a Byzantine Empire, Byzantine outpost in the exarchate of Exarchate of Africa, Africa. Its ruins are located within present-day Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish city in northwest Africa. Names The name Abyla is said to have been a Punic language, Punic name ("Lofty Mountain" or "Mountain of El (deity), God") for Jebel Musa (Morocco), Jebel Musa, the southern Pillars of Hercules, Pillar of Hercules. It appears in Ancient Greek, Greek variously as ''Abýla'' (), ''Abýlē'' (), ''Ablýx'' (), and ''Abílē Stḗlē'' (, "Pillar of Abyla") and in Latin as Mount Abyla (') or the Pillar of Abyla ('). The settlement below Jebel Musa was later renamed for the seven hills around the site, collectively referred to as the "Seven Brothers" (, ''He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abela
Abela is a surname. The Abela family, which is a branch of the royal family of Spain, is originally from Catalonia from where some of its members moved to Valence and then to Sicilia and to Malta. Ávila (called Abela by the Romans) is the capital of the Ávila province (where Saint Teresa, Doctor of the Church, is born), part of Castile and León, the largest autonomous community of Spain. The Abela family is a noble family of Malta. George Abela was unanimously elected President of the Republic of Malta by the Maltese Parliament in 2009, for the first time since the country gained its independence from the United Kingdom. His term ended in 2014. His son, Robert Abela, is the current Prime minister of Malta (since 2020). Wistin Abela was Malta’s finance minister, minister for development, minister of energy, ports and telecommunications and deputy prime minister. Carmelo Abela, Malta’s current minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion, was Malta’s minister for Home A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
