Originating in the Levant region of the Middle East ( modern Israel and Palestine ), it quickly spread to Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Egypt.

He was baptized and instructed in the city, and lived in Palestine in 296, when Diocletian's army passed through the region ( in the Life of Constantine, Eusebius recalls seeing Constantine traveling with the army ).

* History of Palestine ( region )

Palestine is a geographical region in the Middle East.

Based on the borders of Mandatory Palestine, the region today comprising primarily Israel, the Palestinian Authority, the Gaza Strip and small parts of Jordan.

According to Armenian tradition, Dr. Hales is quoted saying, " To the sons of Shem was alloted the middle region of the earth viz., Palestine, Syria, Assyria, Samaria ( Shinar?

In a more " secular " cause, prior to World War II he supported the work of restoration-forester Richard St. Barbe Baker to reforest Palestine, introducing St. Barbe Baker to religious leaders from the major faiths of the region, from whom backing was secured for such an effort.

At the same times, many Arab leaders maintained that Palestine should join a larger Arab state covering the imprecise region of the Levant.

Its report, published in July 1937, recommended the creation of a small Jewish state in a region less than 1 / 5 of the total area of Palestine.

On October 1, the All-Palestine government declared an independent Palestinian state in all of Palestine region with Jerusalem as its capital.

Inspired in part by a visit to Palestine during which he was struck by the historic parallels between the British and Roman occupations of the region, the book draws on materials from early British history and mythology and the history and myths of the Mediterranean region to explore the possibility of small cultures resisting the power of empire.

The region of Palestine was not explicitly mentioned.

… The Islamic revolution will march to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem, and the Islamic state will then spread its authority over the region of which Lebanon is only a part.

He understood Syria to encompass the region from the Taurus mountains to Sinai, but Ptolemy had already conquered Palestine and Phonicia.

It is native to Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia, though its post-Pleistocene range once encompassed the Palestine region.

The exact region referred to as " Blessed Land " in the Qur ' an verse has been interpreted differently by various scholars: Abdullah Yusuf Ali likens it to a wide land range including, Syria, Palestine and the cities of Tyre and Sidon ; Az-Zujaj describes it as, " Damascus, Palestine, and a bit of Jordan "; Qatada claims it to be, " the Levant "; Muadh ibn Jabal as, " the area between al-Arish and the Euphrates "; and Ibn Abbas as, " the land of Jericho ".

The majority of Arab Americans, around 62 %, originate from the region of the Levant, which includes Syria, Lebanon, Palestine / Israel and Jordan, although overwhelmingly from Lebanon.

The movement claimed that it effectively severed Transjordan from Palestine, and so reduced the area on which a future Jewish state in the region could be established.

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; 1882: Baron Edmond James de Rothschild begins buying land in the region of Palestine and financing Jewish agricultural settlements and industrial enterprises.

Avnery's early political thought was influenced by Canaanism ; in 1947 he proposed a union of the countries in the " Semitic region ": Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda in 1575 as " São Paulo de Loanda ", and the region developed as a slave trade market with the help of local Imbangala and Mbundu peoples who were notable slave hunters.

Eight others were founded in the region during his lifetime, numbering 3, 000 monks.

According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

The sons were said to have become kings: Iocastus of the region in southern Italy as far as Rhegium ; Pheraemon and Androcles of the part of Sicily between the Strait of Messina and Lilybaeum ; Xuthus of Leontini ; Agathyrnus of what was known as Agathyrnitis, having founded Agathyrnum ; and Astyochus of Lipara.

Monasticism had been introduced into the region of modern France during the Roman era by St. Martin of Tours, who founded the first monastery in Western Europe.

He continued his explorations of the region west of the Andes and founded over a dozen towns and established the first encomiendas.

The Mondragon Corporation based out of the Basque Country in the region of Spain and France, was founded by a Catholic priest, Father José María Arizmendiarrieta, who seems to have been influenced by the same Catholic social and economic teachings that inspired Belloc, Chesterton, McNabb and the other founders of distributism.

Christianity was founded in the 1st century in the Levant region of the Middle East by Jesus Christ of Nazareth ( Matthew 16: 18 ) Jesus of Nazareth as prophesied in the Old Testament ( Micah 5: 2-5 ) to be the Christ or chosen one of God.

The most of the rest of the Bulgars fled to the north of the Volga River region and founded another state there called Volga Bulgaria ( present day Chuvashia ).

This empire, founded by El Hadj Umar Tall of the Toucouleur peoples, beginning in 1864, ruled eventually most of what is now Mali until the French conquest of the region in 1890.

In 1559, the region fell to successive Arab tribes claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad: first the Saadi Dynasty who ruled from 1554 to 1659 and then the Alaouites, who founded a dynasty that has remained in power since the 17th century.

Built soon after the conquest of northwest Africa, the first mosque built in this region is the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ) founded by the Umayyad general Uqba Ibn Nafi during the second half of the 7th century and considered as the oldest place of worship in the western Islamic world.

Nowy Sącz has become a major educational center in the region thanks to its Higher School of Business and Administration, with an American curriculum, founded in 1992.

Following the breakup of Mali a local leader named Sonni Ali ( 1464 – 1492 ) founded the Songhai Empire in the region of middle Niger and the western Sudan and took control of the trans-Saharan trade.

The modern city of Calabar was founded in 1786 by Efik families who had left Creek Town, further up the Calabar river, settling on the east bank in a position where they were able to dominate traffic with European vessels that anchored in the river, and soon becoming the most powerful in the region.

Polish patriots continued to form societies ( such as the Central Economic Society for the Grand Duchy of Poznań ), and a Polish theatre ( Teatr Polski, still functioning ) opened in 1875 ; however the authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly through the Prussian Settlement Commission ( founded 1886 ).

During the war, the German Empire was founded and the Saar region became part of it.

By 1500, the Algonquian peoples had founded towns such as Werowocomoco in the Tidewater region, which they referred to as Tsenacommacah.

* October 23 – The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization ( IMRO ) is founded by the Bulgarians in the town of Thessaloniki. Its aim was to libarate the region of Macedonia from the Ottoman Turks.

The city of Newcastle was founded by the Normans in 1080 to control the region by holding the strategically important crossing point of the river Tyne.

TeleSUR was founded in 2005 to provide 24-hour news and cultural programming that reflects the diversity of the Latin American region.

The Byzantine authorities in Constantinople soon re-established a measure of control by making the Despotate of Epirus a vassal state, but meanwhile Albanian clans invaded, seized most of the region, and founded two local, short-lived entities, centered in Arta ( 1358 – 1416 ) and Gjirokastër ( 1386 – 1411 ) by the Losha and Zenebishi clans, respectively.

It is called the Labor Day Carnival, West Indian Day Parade or West Indian Day Carnival, and was founded by immigrants from Trinidad, one of the West Indian islands that has one of the largest Carnivals of the Caribbean region.

It was founded to provide a well-rounded education for young men, combining a liberal and scientific education with the technical skills necessary to increase the prosperity of the region.

Though historically a predominantly Afrikaner settlement, Bloemfontein was officially founded in 1846 as a fort by British army major Henry Douglas Warden as a British outpost in the Transoranje region, at that stage occupied by various groups of peoples including Cape Colony Trek Boers, Griqua and Basotho.