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	Pentapolis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A pentapolis, from the Greek words penta 'five' and polis 'city(-state)' is geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities.
		the medieval Central-Italian Pentapolis on the Adriatic, atypically, actually was one duchy east of Tuscany and north of the duchy of Spoleto, including the port cities (West to East) of Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Sinigaglia and Ancona, formerly south of the Byzantine secular Exarchate of Ravenna, later transformed into the March of Ancona
		the Philistine Pentapolis: Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pentapolis (259 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SODOM: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the account of the battle of the kings of the vale of Siddim the names of those rulers are given as follows: "Bera of Sodom, Birsha of Gomorrah, Shinab of Admah, Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela or Zoar.
		The Talmud, like the Bible, ascribes the fate of Sodom and the other cities of Pentapolis to the wickedness of their inhabitants; and when the sins of the people of Jerusalem are enumerated, on the basis of Ezek.
		Pentapolis existed only fifty-two years; and during the last twenty-two of them God brought earthquakes and other misfortunes upon it that it might repent.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=878&letter=S (671 words)

	Pentapolis
		Twelve years later the five kings revolting, the Pentapolis was once more invaded by the armies of the East, the territory plundered, and captives led away, among whom were Lot and his household.
		According to the holders of the latter opinion, we should see, in the Biblical description of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, the account of a great geological disturbance which caused a sinking of the country, this forming the bed of the Dead Sea.
		Most geographers, however, think that the site of the Pentapolis should be sought partly in the shallow bed of the south end of the lake, and partly in its immediate neighbourhood.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/pentapolis.html (707 words)

	Pentapolis - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pentapolis [Gr.,=five cities], collective name anciently applied to several groups of five cities.
		The chief cities of Cyrenaica on the northern coast of Africa (Apollonia, Arsinoë, Berenice, Cyrene, and Ptolemaïs) were thus called from the 4th cent.
		Pericles: Scene V. Pentapolis: A Room in the Palace.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-e-pentapols.html (261 words)

	Synesius
		414), bishop of Ptolemais[?] in the Libyan Pentapolis[?] after 410, was born of wealthy parents, who claimed descent from Spartan kings, at Cyrene between 370 and 375.
		On returning to his native place about the year 397 he was chosen to head an embassy from the cities of the Pentapolis to the imperial court to ask for remission of taxation and other relief.
		His address to Arcadius (De regno) is full of advice as to the studies of a wise ruler in such perilous times.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/sy/Synesius.html (528 words)

	Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, is known as Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of all Africa on the Holy See of St. Mark the Apostle.
		Primate of Egypt, Pentapolis, Libya, Nubia and Sudan.
		But since the demise of the Latin (Roman) North African Archepiscopate of Carthage (which covered all of North and West Africa, apart from Egypt, Pentapolis and Lybia) in the 8th century, Alexandria became the sole Apostolic Throne in the entire continent of Africa (or what was known of it at that time).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coptic_Christianity (8595 words)

	PENTAPOLIS
		"PENTAPOLIS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "five cities".
		"PENTAPOLIS" is a common misspelling or typo for: Pentatonic.
		(5) The Dorian pentapolis: Cnidos, Cos, Lindos, Ialysos, and Camiros.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.com /definition/english/Pe/Pentapolis.html (314 words)

	BNL [Gruppo BNP Paribas]
		BNL ha partecipato a Pentapolis, la prima manifestazione nazionale sui temi della responsabilità sociale d'impresa, che si è svolta a Monza dal 16 al 19 giugno 2005.
		Quattro giorni in cui la città lombarda si è trasformata in un palcoscenico dove le aziende "socialmente responsabili" hanno incontrato le imprese e i cittadini per raccontare l'impegno, la cultura e le esperienze maturate nell'ambito della responsabilità sociale d'impresa.
		Nell'ambito di Pentapolis, BNL è stata presente e attiva con seminari, eventi e momenti di intrattenimento.
	www.bnl.it /default.asp?chardim=2&Page=1943 (153 words)

	Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. XIV
		Of the Same to the Bishops of Libya and Pentapolis.
		There is another Epistle of the same father, complaining to the bishops of Libya and Pentapolis.
		He charges the bishops to take care of this for the future and, if any were to be ordained, to enquire into their lives, and whether they are married, and when, and how; and orders, that catechumens, who had been separated for lapsing, be baptized at the hour of death.
	www.ccel.org /fathers2/NPNF2-14/Npnf2-14-206.htm (86 words)

	Libya Cyrenaica and the Greeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Later, a federation of the Pentapolis was formed that was customarily ruled by a king drawn from the Ptolemaic royal house.
		The economic and cultural development of the Pentapolis was unaffected by the turmoil its political life generated.
		The region grew rich from grain, wine, wool, and stockbreeding and from silphium, an herb that grew only in Cyrenaica and was regarded as an aphrodisiac.
	www.country-studies.com /libya/cyrenaica-and-the-greeks.html (437 words)

	Benghazi - (The land of five cities) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Later still, in the sixth century A. D., Ptolemais because state of ruin and Apollonia (Susa) was made capital of "Upper Libya" or Pentapolis.
		The city was built in 446 B. by one of the brothers of the King at Cyrene.
		Later on, the city joined the confederation of Pentapolis Greek cities in Libya; known by the name of Pentapolis which included Cyrene.
	www.libyaninvestment.com /travel/benghazi.php (354 words)

	A Lamp Lighted by God - St. Nectarios of Pentapolis
		This modern saint, a veritable mountain of virtue, was born Anastasios Kephala, on October 1, 1816, in Silyvria, Greece.
		After receiving his degree in theology in 1885, he was ordained a priest in Alexandria and then, in 1889, made vicar bishop of Pentapolis in Cairo.
		So popular was he among the clergy and laity that those jealous of him, thinking he might be raised to the patriarchal throne, accused him of insubordination and immorality.
	www.roca.org /OA/10/10e.htm (1865 words)

	REPUBLIC OF TURKEY MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURISM
		Bruzus Located in KarasandÄ±klÄ± Village, it is one of the five cities that are called as Pentapolis.
		Otrus Being one of the Pentapolis cities, Otrus was built in YanÄ±kÃ¶ren village.
		StectorÄ±um Being one of the Pentapolis cities, it was built in MenteÅ town, SandÄ±klÄ± district.
	www.kulturturizm.gov.tr /EN/Yonlendir.aspx?17A16AE30572D3137EE1F1486EE5030E79299488453EF356 (223 words)

	Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, WA
		His great service to the Church, prolific writings and teachings, energy and zeal led Fr Nektarios to be ordained as the Metropolitan of Pentapolis in Egypt.
		As a Metropolitan he was greatly admired and loved by his flock for his virtue and purity of life.
		By the working of the Spirit was he glorified, and pours out the abundant grace of wonderous cures upon them that cry: Rejoice, O Father Nektarios.
	home.iprimus.com.au /xenos/nektarios.html (1050 words)

	Lives of Saints :: Abib 10
		The Martyrdom of St. Theodore, Bishop of Pentapolis.
		On this day, St. Theodore, Bishop of Pentapolis (Five Cities) was martyred.
		He was ordained by Pope Theonas (16th) a bishop for the Five Cities (Pentapolis).
	www.copticchurch.net /synaxarium/g_7_17_2005.html (625 words)

	Saint Nectarios
		There it was that he was elected Metropolitan of the ancient city of Pentapolis.
		He then became the bishop of this holy city, and truly the lamp was put upon the lampstand, and it shone to all, far and wide.
		He went and interceded with the Minister of Religion and Education, and they appointed the Saint to be preacher of the diocese of Vitineia and Euboiea.
	atlanta.goarch.org /news/stnectarios1.htm (4020 words)

	Zoar - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Abraham’s time, Zoar was a member of a Pentapolis, one of five city-states, each having its own king.
		When two angels came to warn Lot, Abraham’s nephew, of the Lord’s imminent judgment upon the sinful inhabitants of Sodom, he pled for permission to flee to a small city nearby.
		Apparently he thought that God might spare the city since it was smaller and therefore had presumably committed less sin.
	www.ancientsandals.com /overviews/zoar.htm (184 words)

	Baby names - PENTAPOLIS
		PENTAPOLIS does not currently rank in the top 1000 names.
		See the popularity of the baby name Pentapolis in the U.S. Other countries: The name PENTAPOLIS also used in other countries.
		See the popularity of the baby name Pentapolis in other countries.
	www.yeahbaby.com /baby-name.php?name=Pentapolis (141 words)

	Bible History 2.4: Abraham, Sodom and Abimelech
		It is implied he did so out of a lack of commitment, which in turn was due to the apparent lack of calling, or at least lacking a sense of calling.
		The sordid episode that followed served to explain to the Hebrew readers that the cataclysm in the Pentapolis was not a simple accident of nature.
		The seismic activity of the area, combined with the volatile mix of free sulfur and petroleum, was a disaster waiting to happen.
	ed.asisaid.com /bible/bibhist/bibhist12.html (1053 words)

	Image of the Month
		Ghardaia, imbedded in the valley of the M'Zab wady* in the North of the Algerian Sahara, is the most significant of five oasis cities successively built starting in the early 11th century by M'Zabite Berbers (*wadys are rivers or torrents flowing at very irregular intervals).
		Jointly given the name of "Pentapolis of M'Zab", the desert cities of Ghardaia, El Atteuf, Bounoura, Melinka, Beni Isguen are the main cultural and tourist attraction poles in Algeria, and masterpieces of architecture and town planning.
		Annexed by France in 1882, the M'Zab pentapolis was reverted to Algeria in 1962 and is on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1982.
	www.euspaceimaging.com /content/gallery/IMAGE_OF_THE_MONTH/index.asp (1853 words)

	USCCB - NAB - Wisdom 10
		She, when the nations were sunk in universal wickedness, knew the just man, kept him blameless before God, and preserved him resolute against pity for his child.
		Where as a testimony to its wickedness, there yet remain a smoking desert, Plants bearing fruit that never ripens, and the tomb of a disbelieving soul, a standing pillar of salt.
		Pentapolis: the five cities, including Sodom; cf Genesis 14:2.
	www.usccb.org /nab/bible/wisdom/wisdom10.htm (605 words)

	Our Father among the Saints Nectarius (Nektarios), bishop of Pentapolis, Wonderworker, and founder of the Monastery of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He greatly beautified the Church of Saint Nicholas in Cairo, and years later, when Nectarius was in Athens, Saint Nicholas appeared to him in a dream, embracing him and telling him he was going to exalt him very high.
		"On January 15, 1889, in the same Church of Saint Nicholas, Nectarius was consecrated Metropolitan of Pentapolis in eastern Libya, which was under the jurisdiction of Alexandria.
		Although Nectarius' swift ascent through the degrees of ecclesiastical office did not affect his modesty and childlike innocence, it aroused the envy of lesser men, who convinced the elderly Sophronius that Nectarius had it in his heart to become Patriarch.
	www.holytrinityorthodox.com /calendar/los/November/09-SaintsNectarius.htm (483 words)

	TSING #1: Fall of the Malakite.
		Nazareth and Pentapolis leave Brown's room, with rapiers in hand, and demand that the PCs halt.
		Then Pentapolis pauses to get rid of a solicitor calling her cell phone.
		Meanwhile, Jamie, who uses rollerblades as his standard method of transportation, rolls around behind Pentapolis and wraps his arms around her.
	www.cs.jhu.edu /~rsean/gaming/tsing/session1.html (1367 words)

	Synesius: Catastasis
		Let someone announce to this body, in brief, that until the other day Pentapolis [i.e., Cyrenaica] was still a province valuable to an emperor.
		Until the other day the state of Pentapolis belonged to the Romans, who have now, to the nation's cost, passed her over in enumerating their provinces.
		Pentapolis has now quite clearly vanished; she has reached a state of extremity.
	www.livius.org /su-sz/synesius/synesius_catastasis_1.html (709 words)

	World Heritage Review #8
		Newly built houses are modifying the original urban landscape as they spread out into the palm grove, jeopardising an area which is of vital importance to the city.
		Only by studying their history and by discovering the secret that favoured their creation and preservation through the centuries shall we find ways of solving current problems and of handing these cities down to future generations.
		This led the community to move out into a completely sterile region, cut off from all existing routes and afflicted with highly unfavourable natural conditions, and to settle there.
	whc.unesco.org /whreview/article2.html (2030 words)

	SparkNotes: Pericles: Characters
		Pericles is shipwrecked in Pentapolis, and wins a jousting contest for the hand of Simonides's daughter, Thaisa.
		She is very impressed with Pericles, and writes to her father that she wants to marry him.
		These 'regular people' make observations about the world of the sea and of man, and Pericles is impressed by their simple wisdom.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/pericles/characters.html (1370 words)

	..:: T.C. KÜLTÜR VE TURİZM BAKANLIĞI ::.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Eucarpeia: Sandıklı ilçesi Emirhisar köyünde bulunan Pentapolis kentlerinden biridir.
		Hierapolis: Sandıklı ilçesi, Koçhisar köyünde bulunan Pentapolis kentlerinden biridir.
		Stectorıum: Sandıklı ilçesi Menteş kasabasında kurulan Pentapolis kentlerinden biridir.
	www.kultur.gov.tr /aregem/yonlendir.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFF028B4EEC66E03438FFB31DDACD1CE3B0 (388 words)

	Apollonius, King of Tyre
		Some months later Apollonius is persuaded to go to the city of Pentapolis in Cyrene and hid there.
		Apollonius and family return to Tarsus where the people confirm his kingship and learn of the evil dealings of Stranguillio and Dionysias, who are then stoned to death and tossed outside the city to remain unburied.
		After bestowing various benefactions upon Tarsus, Apollonius sails to Pentapolis in Cyrene and to his father-in-law Archistrates and spends a year with him, after which Archistrates dies, leaving his kingdom to his daughter and Apollonius.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /classics/petron/ApolloniusT.html (2570 words)

	Patriarch (Batiryark) of the Patriarchate (See) of Antioch
		His official title is Patriarch (Batiryark) of the city of Antioch, of Cilicia, Syria, Iberia, Arabia Mesopotamia, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, of all of Egypt and the entire East, Father of Fathers, Pastor of Pastors, Bishop of Bishops, the Thirteenth of The Holy Apostles.
		The formal written title is "His Beatitude, Patriarchal first name, Patriarch of the cities of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, of Cilicia, Syria, Iberia, Arabia Mesopotamia, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, of all of Egypt and the entire East, Father of Fathers, Pastor of Pastors, Bishop of Bishops, the Thirteenth of The Holy Apostles.
		The current Patriarch is His Beatitude, Gregorios III, Patriarch (Batiryark) of the cities of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, of Cilicia, Syria, Iberia, Arabia Mesopotamia, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, of all of Egypt and the entire East, Father of Fathers, Pastor of Pastors, Bishop of Bishops, the Thirteenth of The Holy Apostles.
	www.stgeorgeinzababdeh.com /patriarch.shtml (756 words)

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