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Bible Encyclopedias

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Search Results: "mercy-seat

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Aberdeen
The fourth city in Scotland, on the E. coast, between the mouths of the Dee and Don; built of grey granite, with many fine public edifices, a flourishing
Abo
the old capital of finland and seat of the government, on the gulf of bothnia.
Aix
a town, the ancient capital of provence, 20 m. n. of marseilles, the seat of an archbishop and a university; founded by the romans 123 b.c.; near it marius defeated the teutons.
Akron
a town in ohio, u.s., seat of manufactures and centre of traffic.
Albany (2)
a town in w. australia, on king george sound, 261 m. se. of perth, a port of call for australian liners; also the capital of the state of new york, on the hudson river, a well-appointed city; seat of justice for the state, with a large trade and numerous manufactures.
Alca`la de Hena`res
a town in spain, the birthplace of cervantes, 21 m. e. of madrid, long the seat of a famous university founded by cardinal ximenes.
Almansur, Abu Giafar
the 2nd abbaside caliph and the first of the caliphs to patronise learning; founded bagdad, and made it the seat of the caliphate; d . 775.
Alnwick
the county town of northumberland, on the aln; at the north entrance is alnwick castle, the seat of the duke of northumberland, one of the most magnificent structures of the kind in england, and during the border wars a place of great strength.
Antigua
one of the leeward islands, the seat of the government; the most productive of them belongs to britain.
An`tioch
An ancient capital of Syria, on the Orontes, called the Queen of the East, lying on the high-road between the E. and the W., and accordingly a busy centre
Arad
a fortified town in hungary, seat of a bishop, on the right bank of the maros; manufactures tobacco, trades in cattle and corn.
Arca`dia
a mountain-girt pastoral tableland in the heart of the morea, 50 m. long by 40 broad, conceived by the poets as a land of shepherds and shepherdesses, and rustic simplicity and bliss, and was the seat of the worship of artemis and pan.
Ark of the Covenant
a chest of acacia wood overlaid with gold, 2½ cubits long and 1½ in breadth; contained the two tables of stone inscribed with the ten commandments, the gold pot with the manna, and aaron's rod; the lid supported the mercy-seat, with a cherub at each end, and the shekinah radiance between.
Arles
a city, one of the oldest in france, on the rhône, 46 m. n. of marseilles, where constantine built a palace, with ruins of an amphitheatre and other roman works; the seat of several church councils.
Arran
largest island in the firth of clyde, in buteshire; a mountainous island, highest summit goatfell, 2866 ft, with a margin of lowland round the coast; nearly all the property of the duke of hamilton, whose seat is brodick castle.
Ar`undel
a municipal town in sussex, on the arun, 9 m. e. of chichester, with a castle of great magnificence, the seat of the earls of arundel.
Ar`yans
Or Indo-Europeans, a race that is presumed to have had its primitive seat in Central Asia, E. of the Caspian Sea and N. of the Hindu-Kush, and to have
Asaph, St.
a town in flintshire, 20 m. from chester; seat of a bishopric.
Ashdod
a maritime philistine city 20 m. s. of jaffa, seat of the dagon worship.
Ath`ens
The capital of Attica, and the chief city of ancient Greece, at once the brain and the heart of it; the resort in ancient times of all the able and wise
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