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	AJODHYA - LoveToKnow Article on AJODHYA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Near the head of the gulf is Jeziret Faraun (medieval Graye), a rocky islet with the ruins of a castle built by Baldwin I- (c.
		Akaba is of considerable historical interest and of great antiquity, being the Elath or Eloth of the Bible, and one of the ports whence Solomon's fleet sailed to Ophir.
		In 1892, on the accession of the khedive Abbas II., Turkey resumed possession of Akaba, the Egyptian pilgrims having deserted the land route to Mecca in favor of a sea passage.
	1.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AJ/AJODHYA.htm (682 words)

	Gulf of Aqaba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia all have coastlines on the Gulf of Aqaba.
		The Gulf of Aqaba is one of two gulfs created by the Sinai Peninsula's bifurcation of the northern Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez lying to the west of the Sinai Peninsula and the Gulf of Aqaba lying to its east.
		The Gulf of Aqaba measures 24 km at its widest point and stretches some 160 km north from the Straits of Tiran to a point where the border of Israel meets the borders of Egypt and Jordan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_of_Akaba (332 words)

	Gulf - English dictionary
		Gulf of Aqaba Gulf of Bothnia Gulf of California
		Gulf of Finland Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Martaban
		Gulf of Riga Gulf of Saint Lawrence Gulf of Sidra
	www.online-dictionary.biz /english/vocabulary/reference/Gulf.asp (144 words)

	Gulf of Aqaba - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Gulf of Aqaba, also known as the Gulf of Eilat, is a large gulf of the Red Sea.
		Geologically, the Gulf of Aqaba is an integral part of the Great Rift Valley that runs from East Africa northwards though the Red Sea into southwest Asia.
		The Gulf, measuring 24 km at its widest point, stretches some 160 km north from the Straits of Tiran, ending where the southern border of Israel meets the borders of Egypt and Jordan.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Gulf_of_Akaba (203 words)

	AKABA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Near the head of the gulf is Jeziret Faraun (medieval Graye), a rocky islet with the ruins of a castle built by Baldwin I. (c.
		from the head of the gulf and on its eastern side is the TOMN OF AKABA, with a picturesque medieval castle, built for the protection of pilgrims on there way from Egypt to Mecca.
		In 1892, on the accession of the khedive Abbas II., Turkey resumed possession of Akaba, the Egyptian pilgrims having deserted the land route to Mecca in favour of a sea passage.
	simplestartpage.com /2301_AKABA.HTML (444 words)

	IDUMAEA - LoveToKnow Article on IDUMAEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Its name, which is connected,with the root meaning red, is probably applied in reference to the red sandstone ranges of the mountains of Petra.
		I) and maintaining a navy at Ezion-geber, at the head of the Gulf of Akaba (I Kings ix.
		7), and Azariah his successor was able to renew the sea trade of the Gulf of Akaba (2 Kings xiv.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/ID/IDUMAEA.htm (2296 words)

	AKABA, GULF OF - Online Information article about AKABA, GULF OF
		AKABA, GULF OF, the Sinus Aelaniticus of antiquity, the eastern of the two divisions into which the Red See also:
		Arabia Petraea in a N.N.E. direction, from 28° to 29° 32' N., a distance of too m., and its breadth varies from 12 to 17 M. The entrance is contracted by Tiran and other islands, so that the passage is rendered somewhat difficult; and its See also:
		coral reefs, and the sudden squalls which sweep down from the adjacent mountains, many of which rise perpendicularly to a height of 2000 ft. The gulf is a continuation southward of the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /AJA_ALL/AKABA_GULF_OF.html (646 words)

	Zionist proposal for Jewish Homeland, 1919
		In the east a line close to and west of Hedjaz Railway terminating in the Gulf of Akaba.
		Akaba, it will be recalled, was the terminus of an important trade route of Palestine from the days of Solomon onwards.
		The ports developed in the Gulf of Akaba should be free ports through which the commerce of the Hinterland may pass--on the same principle which guides us in suggesting that free access be given to the Hedjaz Railway.
	www.ece.neu.edu /~xzhu/documents/zionistparis.html (1085 words)

	ATS Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		, a city of Idumea, situated at the northern extremity of the eastern gulf of the Red Sea, which was anciently called the Elantic gulf, and now the gulf of Akaba.
		This gulf, although known to the ancients, has been almost unknown to modern geographers until the time of Burckhardt.
		The fortress of Akaba, near by, now often visited by travelers from Mount Sinai to Palestine, is only important for the protection of pilgrims to Mecca.
	www.studylight.org /dic/ats/print.cgi?number=T680 (217 words)

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		If this is so, it was more likely that it was what is now called the gulf of Akaba that the Israelites crossed, than what is now named the gulf of Suez, because the former is much nearer mount Seir, the land of the Edomites (Genesis 32:3).
		Crossing the gulf of Akaba would have taken them into Arabia.
		Both the gulf of Suez and the gulf of Akaba are branches of the Red sea so there is no difficulty posed regarding the name whichever branch was the correct one.
	www.gsimmonds.com /page191.html (597 words)

	Eureka -- Vol 2 -- Chap 10 -- 6. Position of the Angel, and how it is acquired
		From Suez to Akaba, at the northern extremity of the Gulf of Akaba, a road was constructed by the Romans, measuring 125 miles in a straight line.
		The Ail of Yeshurun riding heavens and clouds, with a mandate of destruction in his right hand, is no other than the Rainbowed Angel with the little scroll of fiery judgments in his hand; which, when executed, result in the deliverance of Israel, and the overthrow of all their enemies.
		From one of these peaks a view is commanded of some parts of the two gulfs of Akaba and Suez; also innumerable ranges of rocky mountains; but around the mount the open places are but few.
	www.antipas.org /eureka/eureka_2/eu_chapter10/c10_s06.html (8446 words)

	a - 0069.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It then falls rapidly to the upper fountains of the Jordan, joins the plains of Htileli, and forms the Jordan valley to the Dead Sea, whence it continues to the Gulf of Akaba.
		The valley of Lebanon at its northern extremity is 2,300 feet above" the sea-level; at Huleh it is level with the Mediterranean; while the surface of the Sea of Tiberias is 682 feet, and that of the Dead Sea 1,292 feet below it.
		Orontes, flowing N. from Mount Libanus through Antioch to the Mediterranean, 149 miles; Leontes, rising near Baalbek, flows S. down the valley of Lebanon to the Mediterranean, 55 miles; Barada {Abana) rises in Anti-Libanus, flows in many channels to Damascus (23 miles), and is absorbed in irrigating the plain.
	www.ccel.org /o/oxford/helps/htm/0069=69.htm (923 words)

	What did Rumsfeld do in Iraq in 1983? : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Akaba lies in Jordan, a few kilometer only far away from Eilat, and belongs to Israel.
		As main export route the route remained southern to the insufficient harbor facilities of Basra at Persian Gulf.
		Additionally the route has the disadvantage that it can be blocked by Iranian side, thus by the northeast bank of the gulf out, easily.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1601133 (895 words)

	Sinai - Akaba, November 21 - December 1, 2002: enlarged thumbnail preview of photos
		A beach near Sun Pool near Marsa Murah fjord of Gulf of Akaba in Sinai.
		Coral fjord Marsa Murah of Gulf of Akaba in Sinai.
		A mosque near a beach in Akaba, view from a bus.
	www.asergeev.com /pictures/archives/2002/314/browser1.htm (257 words)

	Tanner on the Red (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		That is, the Bible here conceptualized the Red Sea and this Gulf as the same basic body of water.
		If on the one hand Tanner finds a reason for calling the Red Sea the Reed Sea, he thus undermines his central idea that the Red Sea cannot be called the Reed Sea.
		Thus it was once conjectured that the marshes at the Gulf of Suez must in ancient times have extended c.
	www.asa3.org:16080 /ASA/PSCF/1999/PSCF6-99McGrath2.html (1037 words)

	Mark 3:8 - Andrew Wommack Ministries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Edom was another name given to Esau, the son of Isaac, because of the time that Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for some red pottage (Gen. 25:30).
		The land of Idumaea (also Edom, Mt. Seir) occupies a very mountainous and rugged country about 100 miles long, from the southern part of the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akaba.
		This includes the famous city of Petra which was carved out of the sandstone cliffs.
	www.awmi.net /bible/mar_03_08?op=makePrintable (537 words)

	Photos from the Gulf of Akaba Photos - Pictures from the gulf of Akaba Pictures - Egypt - sinai - Gulf of Aqaba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Gulf of Aqaba's warm waters boast over 1,000 species of fish, and hundreds of varieties of fringing and fan corals, sea grasses, sponges, invertebrates and other colourful forms of marine life.
		If you want to book with them, make sure you do it a few months in advance as they are very busy, and if you're planning a new year or Christmas holiday there book about a year in advance.
		You can book one of these huts (book early) or you can show up at any time and camp on the beach, it is very cheap.
	www.ehabweb.net /akaba.html (316 words)

	MT. SINAI IS NOT AT JEBEL EL-LAWZ IN SAUDI ARABIA
		I would like to propose that there was a canal from the Bitter Lakes to the Gulf of Suez, or at least the remnants of a canal that was started and abandoned by the time of the Exodus, but the toponym was still known.
		If the proponents of Jebel al-Lawz were consistent with their views, the Wilderness of Etham would be somewhere on the west side of the Sinai, yet it would also be across the Straits of Tiran in Saudi Arabia.
		The Red Sea crossings at the Gulf of Akaba / Eilat have serious topographical and Biblical / geographical difficulties that the proponents of the view need to consider.
	www.ldolphin.org /franz-ellawz.html (9006 words)

	n i l e M e d i a . c o m
		In the event that the Egyptian Government should fail to agree within the stipulated time to the conditions of the appeal addressed to it, the Anglo-French forces will launch military operations against the Egyptian forces in the early hours of the morning of 31 October.
		The Israeli Government will send forces to occupy the western shore of the Gulf of Akaba and the group of islands Tirane and Sanafir to ensure freedom of navigation in the Gulf of Akaba.
		Israel undertakes not to attack Jordan during the period of operations against Egypt.
	www.nilemedia.com /Columnists/Ahmed/2003/November/The_Protocol.html (406 words)

	Jewish history
		Surrounded by ancient seats of culture in Egypt and Babylonia, by the deserts of Arabia, and by the highlands of Asia Minor, the land of Canaan (later Judea, then Palestine, then Israel) was a meeting place of civilizations.
		The land was traversed by old-established trade routes and possessed important harbors on the Gulf of Akaba and on the Mediterranean coast, the latter exposing it to the influence of other cultures of the Fertile Crescent.
		Traditionally Jews around the world claim descendance mostly from the ancient Israelites (also known as Hebrews), who settled in the land of Israel.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jewish_history.html (1370 words)

	Is Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia, by Gordon Franz
		In 1978, Wyatt claimed to have discovered the Red Sea crossing at Newaba in the Gulf of Akaba (the eastern branch of the Red Sea) and some of "pharaoh's chariot wheels." This led Wyatt to conclude that Mt. Sinai must be in Saudi Arabia.
		It is basically a retelling of his and Williams' adventures found in the other books, but it also has a section at the end of the book about their search for pharaoh's chariots in the Gulf of Akaba.
		He describes the borders of Arabia as having its eastern border at the Persian Gulf and its western border at the East Side of the Nile River.
	www.ldolphin.org /franz-sinai.html (8994 words)

	Stern Gallery - Le Meridien Eilat
		Le Meridien Eilat has been planned and designed according to the internationally renowned standards of Meridien hotels worldwide.
		Le Meridien Eilat offers 245 exquisite, spacious suites on the shore of the red sea facing the gulf of Akaba.
		It is renowned for combining impeccable elegance with an intimate atmosphere and French chic.
	www.sternart.com /project.asp?ID=6 (152 words)

	Antique print: picture of Island Of Graia, Gulf Of Akaba - Faint foxing in margin
		Antique print: picture of Island Of Graia, Gulf Of Akaba - Faint foxing in margin
		Island Of Graia, Gulf Of Akaba - Faint foxing in margin
		Genuine antique print of Island Of Graia, Gulf Of Akaba from Idumea and Petra by David Roberts.
	www.finerareprints.com /print_detail.html?stock_no=7799 (544 words)

	Mount Sinai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"...the land west of a line from the Wady of Egypt to the Elanitic Gulf [the Gulf of Aqaba] has always belonged to the Egyptian political sphere, and actually that is the present boundary of Egypt....
		When Ron was at Jebel el Lawz in 1985, he learned first-hand of the traditions among the inhabitants of the region which placed Jethro (Moses' father-in-law) in northwestern Saudi Arabia.
		I could go on and on with references that support the traditions of Jethro and Moses in the region, but tradition is limited in its usefulness.
	www.anchorstone.com /number17c.html (1577 words)

	Arabia Part I: Bible Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is el-'Ula, near Tema, southeast of the Gulf of Akaba (cf.
		Raamah probably was on the Persian Gulf (Gen 10:7).
		The messengers were spared only to convey the evil tidings, in overwhelmingly close succession, to their bereaved master.
	monthly-messenger.org /Extended_Studies/Islam/Arabia.htm (8968 words)

	Education & Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Located in Dahab Bay on the Gulf of Akaba, the former Helnan Hotel will close in April 2005 for eight months in order to complete a major renovation costing approximately six million dollars (US) prior to re-opening as Le Meridien Dahab Resort and Spa.
		The hotel, which will have 200 rooms and suites over looking the sea, is a one hour drive (80km) from Sharm El Sheik Airport in an area renowned for its exceptional marine life and proximity to the desert.
		The company also enjoys a strategic alliance with JAL-owned Nikko Hotels, providing loyal guests access to an additional 44 properties around the world.
	www.hsmai.org /Events/NewsDetail.cfm?id=4022638 (364 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Rockets Hit Red Sea Coast Cities
		Earlier in the day two rockets landed near American navy ships in the Gulf of Akaba in Jordan.
		The Jordanian forces have closed the Akaba Gulf area to investigate.
		Recently in the port of Akaba, there has been a presence of American combat ships.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-8-19/31413.html (271 words)

	Zionist Organization Statement on Palestine
		Akaba, it will be recalled, was the terminous of an important trade route of Palestine from the days of Solomon onwards.
		The ports developed in the Gulf of Akaba should be free ports through which the commerce of the Hinterland may pass on the same principle which guides us in suggesting that free access be given to the Hedjaz Railway.
		In connection with the Government to be set up by the Mandatory of the League of Nations until such time as the people of Palestine shall be prepared to undertake the establishment of representative and responsible Government, proposals will be made in due course to the Mandatory Power to the following effect:
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/zoparis.html (3173 words)

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