In the interests of a gold mining company he formed, Peters explored the Fura district and Macombes country on the Zambezi river, where in 1899 he discovered ruins of cities and deserted gold mines of the medieval Kingdom of Mutapa, which he identified as the legendary ancient lands of Ophir.

Traffic congestion during the morning peak hours, however, led to the introduction of an Electronic Road Pricing ( ERP ) gantry near the Tanjong Rhu Flyover in the direction towards the city, one of the first two gantries to be set up in the country, which came into operation on 1 April 1998 together with the other gantry at Ophir Road.

Likely the wood was brought by the ships of Tarshish, sent from the Red Sea port of Ezion-Giber, from the distant country of Ophir, and was very valuable.

However, the tiny kingdom of Khoraja stands in his way, a country presently ruled by the lithesome Yasmela, sister of the king, who is himself a captive of neighbouring Ophir.

* Ophir, a fictional country in the Hyborian Age invented by Robert E. Howard

Ophir (; ) is a port or region mentioned in the Bible, famous for its wealth.

These goods were transhipped at the port of Ophir.

Howard named it after Ophir, an ancient port or region mentioned in the Books of Kings as famous for its wealth.

The ships of Solomon and Hiram started from this port on their voyage to Ophir.

According to the Bible, during Solomon's reign Israel enjoyed great commercial prosperity, with extensive traffic being carried on by land with Tyre, Egypt, and Arabia, and by sea with Tarshish, Ophir, and South India.

* Bochart first suggested eastern localities for the ports of Ophir and Tarshish during King Solomon's reign, specifically the Tamilakkam continent ( present day South India and Northern Ceylon ) where the Dravidians were well known for their gold, pearls, ivory and peacock trade.

KI also holds a 13. 7 % share in Aurelian Oil & Gas, a company dealing with oil and gas exploration, appraisal and production ; 39 % in Loon Energy Corporation, holder of an exploration and production concessions in Colombia and Peru ; 49. 99 % in Kulczyk Oil Ventures, a company dealing with oil and gas exploration and production in the Sultanate of Brunei, Syria and Ukraine ; as well as 10. 2 % in Ophir Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company active in Africa.

* Ianthe is also the name of a fictional city in the nation of Ophir ( see also Hyborian Age, Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard )

Ophir is said to have been a town of the Abhira tribe.

Vasco da Gama's companion Tomé Lopes reasoned that Ophir would have been the ancient name for Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe, the main center of sub-African trade in gold in the Renaissance period — though the ruins at Great Zimbabwe are now dated to the medieval era, long after Solomon is said to have lived.

Wilbur Smith's novel The Sunbird is set in ancient Ophir ( called Opet ) and its modern ruins.

In the Cave of Treasures, this appears as: " And the children of Ophir, that is, Send, appointed to be their king Lophoron, who built Ophir with stones of gold ; now, all the stones that are in Ophir are of gold.

The cave-in problem was solved by the method of square-set timbering invented by Philip Deidesheimer, a German who had been appointed superintendent of the Ophir mine.

), who built Ophir with stones of gold ; now, all the stones that are in Ophir are of gold.

Ophir Pines-Paz (, born 11 July 1961 ) is an Israeli former politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Science, Culture & Sport and as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party from 1996 until 2010.

King Conan receives a call for help from Amalrus, the ruler of neighbouring Ophir, who claims that Stradabonus, the king of Koth, is threatening his border.

The story is followed by The Scarlet Citadel where Conan faces a plot to depose him by his former ally Amalrus of Ophir, Strabonus of Koth, Thosta-Lanti who served as the power behind the throne of Coth and Prince Arpello of Pellia, a surviving member of the old Aquilonian dynasty.

Several of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan novels happen in and around the lost city of Opar, deep in the African jungles — with Opar evidently being another name for Ophir.

Ophir is a region mentioned in the Bible that was famous for its wealth.

The byway descends near the little town of Ophir past the location of the famous Ophir Loop of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad.

William's Cottage, the Lake Lodge of Ophir, Queenstown Police Station, and St Peter's Anglican Church lie close together in a designated historic precinct.

* 1929 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor ( d. 1987 )

29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi, a 19th century Arab historian, states that al-Hind and al-Sind are of Ophir, the son of Joktan.

It is the second-oldest alternating current power plant in the world, the first being the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant near Ophir, Colorado, also in San Miguel County.

However, the majority pushed for an earlier date, as younger members of the party, among them Ophir Pines-Paz and Isaac Herzog, overtook established leaders like Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Haim Ramon, in the party ballot to divide up government portfolios.

King Solomon is supposed to have received a cargo of gold, silver, sandalwood, precious stones, ivory, apes and peacocks from Ophir, every three years.

Ophir in Genesis 10 ( the Table of Nations ) is said to be the name of one of the sons of Joktan.

Ophir is also a place mentioned in poetry by John Masefield.

Details about the three of Joktan's sons, Sheba, Ophir and Havilah, were preserved in a tradition known in divergent forms from three pre-Islamic Arabic and Ethiopic sources: the Kitab al-Magall ( part of Clementine literature ), the Cave of Treasures, and the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.

The Kitab al-Magall states that in the days of Reu, a king of Saba ( Sheba ) named " Pharoah " annexed Ophir and Havilah to his kingdom, and " built Ophir with stones of gold, for the stones of its mountains are pure gold.

Biblical scholars, archaeologists and others have tried to determine the exact location of Ophir.

The identification of Ophir with Sofala in Mozambique was mentioned by Milton in Paradise Lost ( 11: 399-401 ), among many other works of literature and science.

On the other hand, the theologian Benito Arias Montano ( 1571 ) proposed finding Ophir in the name of Peru, reasoning that the native Peruvians were thus descendants of Ophir and Shem.

He also claimed, that the province of Iucatan, had the same name that Ioktan father of Ophir.

In the 19th century Max Müller and other scholars identified Ophir with Abhira, at the mouth of the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan.