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William Tronzo, David Natal, Jordan Pickett, Lucy Grig, William Tronzo, Lucy Grig, Lucy Grig, Lucy Grig, Caroline Goodson, Lucy Grig, Oliver Nicholson, Lucy Grig, William Tronzo, Lucy Grig, Caroline Goodson, Caroline Goodson, Lucy Grig, Lucy Grig, Lucy Grig, Lucy Grig, Lucy Grig, Lucy Grig, Lucy Grig, Lucy Grig, and William Tronzo
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
..., 48), who added three cruciform, mosaic-decorated oratories, of which two are partially preserved. A bath complex existed before Constans II ’s visit in 661 ( Liber Pontificalis , 78). Later Pope Hadrian I restored its water supply, the aqueduct called the Aqua Claudia. Jordan Pickett Corpus Basilicarum , vol. 5, 1–92. H. Brandenburg , Ancient Churches of Rome from the Fourth to the Seventh Century (2005), 20–54. O. Brandt , ‘Il Battistero lateranense dell’imperatore Costantino …’, Acta Hyperborea 8 (2001), 117–44. Rome, churches of, Pantheon...
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Charles J. Reid Jr., Jordan J. Ballor, Joel A. Nichols, Charles J. Reid Jr., Michael J. Broyde, Ira Bedzow, Mark Goldfeder, and David Wagschal
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law
...20 May 2014. Althusius, Johannes . Politica . Abridged, edited, and translated by Frederick S. Carney . Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Fund, 1995. Althusius, Johannes . On Law and Power . Translated by Jeffrey J. Veenstra . Grand Rapids, Mich.: CLP Academic, 2013. Ballor, Jordan J. Covenant, Causality, and Law: A Study in the Theology of Wolfgang Musculus . Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012. Berman, Harold J. Law and Revolution, II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University...
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 208403 English, German, French (mainly Alsace and Haute-Savoie), Polish, Czech, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian ( Jordán ): from the Christian personal name or nickname Jordan . This is taken from the name of the river Jordan (Hebrew Yarden , a derivative of yarad ‘to go down’, i.e. to the Dead Sea). At the time of the Crusades it was a common practice for crusaders and pilgrims to bring back flasks of water from the river in which John the Baptist had baptized people, including Christ himself, and to use it in the...
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Gidon BROMBERG
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
... Jordan River Project The Jordan River is spiritually important to millions of people worldwide: crossing the River Jordan marks the Israelites’ entrance into the Holy Land in the Hebrew Bible; Jesus Christ was baptized in the Jordan, which makes its waters holy for Christianity; and many of the venerable companions of the Prophet Muhammad are buried near its banks. The Jordan River valley is also a lush, wetland ecosystem. Over 500 million birds migrating from Europe to Africa twice a year depend on the Jordan River valley as a vital stopover on their...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
... . [See Transjordan...
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J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
... , previously known as Trans-Jordan, was part of the Turkish empire in 1914 but after the First World War became a British mandate under the League of Nations . In 1946 the independence of Jordan was declared and a kingdom established under the Amir Abdullah . After Abdullah’s assassination in 1951 , his son Talal was briefly king, before giving way in 1953 to his son Hussein . In 1967 Israel occupied the territory west of the Jordan and annexed east Jerusalem, sending a million Palestine refugees into Jordan. In 1988 the Jordanians...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... A name formerly given to the pot used by alchemists and doctors, then transferred to a chamber pot. It was perhaps originally ‘Jordan-bottle’, i.e. a bottle in which pilgrims and crusaders brought back water from the River Jordan. Why, they will allow us ne’er a jordan, and then we leak in the chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds fleas like a loach. Jordan almond Here ‘Jordan’ has nothing to do with the river but is an alteration of French jardin , ‘garden’. The Jordan almond is a fine variety that comes chiefly from Malaga. See also jerusalem...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
... 1881: 13058; widespread. English: relationship name from the Middle English personal name Jordan , taken from the name of the river in which John the Baptist baptized people, including Christ himself. Returning Crusaders brought back with them vials of Jordan water for the baptism of their children, and as a result the name became quite...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland
...in AU . surnames: Adam Fitz Jordan, 1285 in CDI §59 (Dublin); Walter Jordan, 1289 in CDI §224 (Dublin); Adam Jordan, 1308 in Justiciary Rolls (Ireland) (Dublin); Robert Jordan, 1313 in Justiciary Rolls (Ireland) (Waterford); Stiamna Mac Siurtan, 1355 in Annals of Connacht ; Mac Siurtan Dub .i. Seaan Bude, 1422 in Annals of Connacht ; John Jordane, gent., 1570 in Fiants Elizabeth §1606 (Hiltone, Dublin); Edmond Evaghery McJordan, 1585 in Fiants Elizabeth §4583; William Jordan (of Villa Templi) and Cornelius Jordan (of Ecclesia Magna), 1590 in ...
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Howard Sargeant
Dictionary Plus Social Sciences
...Jordan A river in the Middle East. Rising in Lebanon, it flows for 250 km south through Israel–Palestine before emptying into the Dead Sea. A southern section of the river forms the national border between Israel and the kingdom of Jordan. The river is significant in the scriptures of both Jews and Christians. Howard...
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World Encyclopedia
... River in the Middle East, rising in the Anti-Lebanon mountains at the confluence of the Hasbani, Dan, and Baniyas rivers. It flows s through Israel and the Sea of Galilee, and empties into the Dead Sea. Since 1967 , the s part of the river forms a section of the Israel-Jordan border. Length: 320km...
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World Flags
... The green, white, and black on this flag are the colours of the three tribes who led the Arab Revolt against the Turks in 1917. Red is the colour of the Hashemite dynasty, rulers of Jordan. The star was added in 1923. Its seven points represent the first seven verses of the...
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Matthew Edwards
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
... (Ar. al-Urdunn ) One of the original Syrian jund s (‘military districts’) established during the Arab conquests in the 630s and a principal support base for Marwan I b. al-Hakam (r. 684–5), the founder of the Marwanid Umayyad dynasty . Jordan’s administrative centre was Tiberias . Matthew Edwards J. Haldon , ‘Seventh Century Continuities: The Ajnad and the Thematic Myth’, in A. Cameron and L. I. Conrad , eds., The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East III (1995), 379–423. H. Kennedy , The Armies of the Caliphs ...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (6 ed.)
...the armistice between Israel and Jordan the previous year, Jordan formally annexed the West Bank ; however, it was lost to Israel as a result of the Six Day War in 1967 . Between February and July 1958 Jordan and Iraq joined in a federation called the Arab Union, but this was brought to an end with the murder of the Iraqi king and the overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy. The country is named after the River Jordan which is believed to derive its name from the Hebrew root yrd ‘descend (into the Dead Sea)’. Jordan, however, could mean ‘River of Dan’, Dan...
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Rafik Darragi
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
... . Within the Arab world , Jordanian theatre developed through school stages and literary associations until the establishment of the University of Jordan Theatre Company in 1962 . Today, the Jerash Festival, in central Jordan, and the Amman International Theatre Festival are the main venues for Shakespearian performances. In 2003 , during the 11th Amman International Theatre Festival, the Shakespearian adaptation of the Syrian Ramzi Shukeir Al- Zayr Salim and Prince Hamlet was presented at the Royal Cultural Centre in Amman. In 1984 , the Jordanian...
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World Encyclopedia
... The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is an Arab country in SW Asia. The Great Rift Valley in the W contains the River Jordan and the Dead Sea . E of the Rift Valley is the Transjordan Plateau, where most Jordanians live. To the E and S lie vast areas of desert. Jordan has a short coastline on an arm of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba . The highest peak is Jabal Ram (1,754m [5,755ft]). Climate About 90% of Jordan has a desert climate, with an average annual rainfall of less than 200mm [8in]. Summers are hot; winters can be cold, with snow on higher areas....
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A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...a commando force ( fedayeen ) in Jordan to raid Israel. Hostility from Palestinian refugees from the West Bank to the moderate policies of Hussein erupted in 1970 between the guerrillas and the government. The mainly Bedouin regiments loyal to the king broke up the military bases of al- Fatah , and the Palestine Liberation Organization moved its forces ( 1971 ) to Lebanon and Syria. During the Yom Kippur War Jordan sent tanks to aid Syria, but there was no fighting along the Jordan frontier. In 1974 Jordan’s relations with other Arab countries...
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Susan MacDougall
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women
...jordanian-womens-rights-activists-protest-citizenship-rights-414643 . Jordan Times . February 27, 2012. “Jordan Human Development Report 2011: Small Businesses and Human Development.” Jordan Ministry of Planning and United Nations Development Programme, 2011. “The Jordanian Labour Market in Numbers: 2010.” http://www.mol.gov.jo/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=itpOLbpsI9k%3d&tabid=356 . Ministry of Labour, Jordan. “Jordan Slashes Illiteracy Rate Tenfold over 50 Years.” http://jordantimes.com/jordan-slashes-illiteracy-rate-tenfold-over-50-years . Jordan Times...
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The Islamic World: Past and Present
...Jordan Jordan is a Middle Eastern country bordered by Syria to the north, Israel to the west, and Saudi Arabia to the south and southeast. It also shares a small border with Iraq to the east. Due in part to its shared border with Israel, Jordan has played a central role in Arab-Israeli relations since the mid-1900s. History and Government A series of different cultures, including the Roman Empire, the Ummayad caliphate, the Mamluk kingdom, and the Ottoman Empire, controlled the area now known as Jordan until just after World War I ( 1914–1918 ). Jordan,...
