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  SMITH'S BIBLE DICTIONARY - I
So named by his mother, who died at hearing of the loss of the Ark of God, her husband, and father-in-law, at the battle of Aphek.
Konieh, a large city; is on a table-land, a fertile plain, near a semi-circle of snow-capped mountains in Asia Minor.
This level district was Lycaonia, of which Cicero says it was the capital.
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 Smith's Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
(little image), the modern Konieh, was the capital of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor.
It was a large and rich city, 120 miles north from the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Taurus mountains, and on the great line of communication between Ephesus and the western coast of the peninsula on one side, and Tarsus, Antioch and the Euphrates on the other.
The modern Konieh is between two and three miles in circumference and contains over 30,000 inhabitants.
www.studylight.org /dic/sbd/print.cgi?number=T2083   (119 words)

  
 ATS Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
The church continued in being here for eight centuries, but under the Mohammedan rule was almost extinguished.
At present, Konieh is the capital of Caramania.
It is situated in a beautiful and fertile country, 260 miles southeast of Constantinople, and 120 from the Mediterranean.
www.studylight.org /dic/ats/print.cgi?number=T1038   (171 words)

  
 Schulers Books (History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 - 119/202)
Hussein's army, now completely demoralised, made its escape to the centre of Asia Minor; the Egyptian, after advancing as far as Mount Taurus and occupying the passes in this range, took up his quarters in the conquered country in order to refresh his army and to await reinforcements.
He attacked Ibrahim at Konieh on the 21st of December, and was completely defeated.
Reschid himself was made a prisoner; his army dispersed; the last forces of the Sultan were exhausted, and the road to the Bosphorus lay open before the Egyptian invader.
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 Antique Collectors' Dictionary (K)
Of interest is the knop with a coin enclosed; examples have been found with coins dating from the late seventeenth century, but the coin is all too likely to be older than the glass.
Konieh Rugs: From the Whirling Dervish city of Konieh, ancient Iconium, with many geometric and floral designs in rich colours, notably red and blue; coarse weave.
Ko Ware: Stoneware of the Sung dynasty comprising a dark body and variously shaded grey glaze with a fine-meshed crackle.
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 7\' round braided rug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
He quotes Conia (Konieh in Anatohia), Savast (Sivas in Asia Minor), some 300 m..
Two refl4gee French carpet-makers from the Savonnerie had arrived in London in 1750, and started weaving a specimen carpet in Westminster..
Carpet installers use handtools such as hammers, drills, staple guns, carpet knives, and rubber mallets..
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 PNT Commentary on Acts Chapter 13
It was only after the Turkish conquests in Europe that the capital was moved to Constantinople.
It is still a place of 30,000 inhabitants, and is called Konieh.
Even if Paul and Barnabas were driven away, they had left them a glorious inheritance.
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 Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 8, EGYPT: Library of Economics and Liberty
He thought he might be able to achieve his independence and after having spread terror throughout Arabia, he attempted to add Syria to his domains.
The victories of Konieh (1832), and of Nezib (1839), gained by his son Ibrahim, while enhancing his own successes, seemed to favor his designs; but immediately after each triumph, the will of Europe arrested the advance of the rebel conqueror.
The great powers, devoted to the preservation of the Ottoman empire, as necessary to the equilibrium of Europe, refused to permit the detachment of Egypt, much less Syria, from it.
www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy399.html   (3112 words)

  
 Link Service: Konya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Konya (Ottoman Turkish language : قونیه; also Koniah, Konieh, Konia, and Qunia; historically known as Iconium, List of traditional Greek place names : Ικόνιον) is a city in Turkey, on the central plateau of Anatolia.
It has a population of 742 690 (in 2000) and it is the capital of Konya Province Provinces of Turkey, which is the biggest Turkish province in terms of area.
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 Rise and Decline of Ottoman Power
Then he turned again westward, and, influenced not a little, perhaps, by the presence in his court of some Turkish princes, deposed by the Ottoman Sultans, he captured Syria, and just as Bajazet was under the walls of Constantinople he heard that his own kingdoms were in danger.
At the famous battle of Konieh (Iconium) the Ottoman power was broken; but with the death of Timour his empire went to pieces and the Ottoman line again resumed its power.
For another half century advance was made even more rapidly than before, and on either side of the Bosporus and Dardanelles the arms of the Turks were victorious.
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 The Turks
The Fatimite Caliphs of Egypt were practically under his power, and from his capital at Konieh (Iconium) he governed the whole of his vast domains.
The graceful mosques and arches, sometimes highly adorned, mostly now fallen into ruin, are all that is left of a strange incursion of the wild Tartars into civilization.
Malek Shah left little or nothing of his own ability to his three sons, who disputed among themselves and divided the empire: one holding Persia and laying the foundation for the present Kajar dynasty; another occupying Northern Syria, while the third retained the ancestral capital at Konieh.
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised), by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern ...
Servia, which might have objected, was a vassal kingdom, the protégé of Austria, under the dynasty of the Obrenovitch.
As Austria might hope to follow the line to Salonica,[22] so Germany, before the end of the nineteenth century, seems to have conceived of a parallel line of penetration, which would carry her influence through Constantinople, through Konieh, to Bagdad.
In a word, Germany began to stand in the way of the Russian traditions of ousting the Turk and ruling in Constantinople: she began to buttress the Turk, to train his army, to exploit his country, and to seek to oust Russia generally from South-Eastern Europe.
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 I's
It was first visited by Paul and Barnabas from Antioch-in-Pisidia during the apostle's first missionary journey Ac 13:50,51 Here they were persecuted by the Jews, and being driven from the city, they fled to Lystra.
They afterwards returned to Iconium, and encouraged the church which had been founded there Ac 14:21,22 It was probably again visited by Paul during his third missionary journey along with Silas Ac 18:23 It is the modern Konieh, at the foot of Mount Taurus, about 120 miles inland from the Mediterranean.
Snares(?), a city near the west border of Zebulun Jos 19:15 It has been identified with the modern Jeida, in the valley of Kishon.
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 The Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston by Karl Marx
As early as October, 1831, commenced the conflict between the Sultan and Mehemet Ali, the Pasha of Egypt, who had supported the Porte during the Greek insurrection.
In the spring of 1832, Ibrahim Pasha, his son, marched his army into Syria, conquered that province by the battle of Homs, crossed the Taurus, annihilated the Turkish army at the battle of Konieh, and moved on the way to Stamboul.
According to his own statement the conflict between the Porte and Mehemet Ali arose as early as October, 1831, while the decisive battle of Konieh was not fought till December 21, 1832.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1853/palmerston/ch04.htm   (2185 words)

  
 A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 by Robert Kerr eBook by BookRags
We remained in Sebasta, Siwas, or Sivas, a town of the Lesser Armenia, in the Easter week, and on the succeeding Sunday we came to Caesaria of Capadocia, now called Kaisarea.
In about fifteen days, making short journeys, we came to Konieh or Iconium.
My guide presented me to the soldan, who said he would willingly get me conveyed to the sea
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 iconium - Easton's Bible Dictionary
It was first visited by Paul and Barnabas from Antioch-in-Pisidia during the apostle's first missionary journey (Acts 13:50,51) Here they were persecuted by the Jews, and being driven from the city, they fled to Lystra.
They afterwards returned to Iconium, and encouraged the church which had been founded there (Acts 14:21,22) It was probably again visited by Paul during his third missionary journey along with Silas (Acts 18:23) It is the modern Konieh, at the foot of Mount Taurus, about 120 miles inland from the Mediterranean.
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'''Konya''' (Ottoman: قونیه; also '''Koniah''', '''Konieh''', '''Konia''', and '''Qunia'''; historically known as '''Iconium''', Greek: ''Ικόνιον'') is a city in Turkey, on the central plateau of Anatolia.
It has a population of 742 690 (in 2000) and it is the capital of Konya Province, which is the biggest Turkish province in terms of area (...)
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