PENTAPOLIS

Meaning of PENTAPOLIS in English

Pronunciation: pen- ' ta-p ə -lis

Function: geographical name

any of several groups of five ancient cities in Italy, Asia Minor, & Cyrenaica

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

PENTAPOLIS — geographical name any of several groups of five ancient cities in Italy, Asia Minor, & Cyrenaica
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PENTAPOLIS — pen.ˈtapələ̇s noun ( -es ) Etymology: Late Latin, a district of five towns on the Dead Sea, from Greek, group …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PENTAPOLIS — geographical name any of several groups of five ancient cities in Italy, Asia Minor, & Cyrenaica
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PENTAPOLIS — five cities
Bible Names English vocab
PENTAPOLIS — (историческое) пентаполь
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PENTAPOLIS — n ист. пентаполь
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PENTAPOLIS — (n) пентаполь
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PENTAPOLIS — n ист. пентаполь
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PENTAPOLIS — n ист. пентаполь
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PENTAPOLIS — (историческое) пентаполь
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PHILISTINE — Member of a group of Aegean origin that settled on the southern coast of Palestine . The Philistines first settled …
Английский словарь Британика
PESARO — ancient Pisorum City (pop., 2001 prelim.: 90,311), Marche region, north-central Italy. A seaport on the Adriatic Sea, Pesaro was destroyed …
Английский словарь Британика
EKRON — Canaanite and Philistine city in ancient Palestine. It was one of the five cities of the Philistine Pentapolis and was …
Английский словарь Британика
PENTAPOLITAN — |pentə|pälət ə n adjective Etymology: Late Latin pentapolitanus, from pentapolis, after such pairs as Late Latin metropolis : metropolitanus metropolitan …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PATRIARCH — Latin Patriarcha, Greek Patriarches, title used for some Old Testament leaders (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's 12 sons) and, in …
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SIMONIDES — king of Pentapolis and father of Thaisa in Shakespeare's Pericles. Simonides represents virtue and the sincere generosity of a father's …
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SENIGALLIA — formerly Sinigaglia, Latin Sena Gallica, town and episcopal see, Ancona provincia, Marche regione, central Italy. Senigallia lies along the Adriatic …
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PHILISTINE — one of a people of Aegean origin who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century BC, …
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PESARO — Latin Pisaurum, city, capital of Pesaro e Urbino provincia, Marche regione, northern Italy. Pesaro is a seaport lying along the …
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PERICLES — play in five acts by William Shakespeare, first performed in 1608-09 and published in a quarto edition in 1609, a …
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PAPAL STATES — also called Church States, Italian Stati Pontifici or Stati della Chiesa territories of central Italy over which the pope had …
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MARCHE — English The Marches region in central Italy fronting on the Adriatic Sea and comprising the provinces of Ancona, Ascoli Piceno, …
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M'ZAB — region containing five towns, one of the major groups of oases of the Sahara, central Algeria. It was founded in …
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LESBOS — Modern Greek Lsvos, also called Mitilni (after its capital), largest island after Crete and Euboea in the Aegean Sea, forming …
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GAZA — kingdom established in the highlands of the middle Sabi River in Mozambique in the 1830s by Soshangane, the Ndwandwe general …
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FANO — island of the North Frisian group, in the North Sea off Esbjerg, southwestern Jutland, Den. Crown property until it was …
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EMILIA-ROMAGNA — regione, north-central Italy. It comprises the provincie of Bologna, Ferrara, Forl, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio nell'Emilia, and Rimini. The …
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EKRON — ancient Canaanite and Philistine city, one of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis, and currently identified with Tel Miqne …
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CYRENAICA — also spelled Cirenaica, Arabic Barqah historic region of North Africa and until 1963 a province of the United Kingdom of …
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ASHQELON — also spelled Ashkelon, classical Ascalon, or Askalon city on the coastal plain of Palestine, since 1948 in southwestern Israel. The …
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ASHDOD — city of southern Palestine, on the coastal plain of ancient Philistia; since 1948 it has been a city in southwestern …
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ANCONA — capital of Ancona provincia and of Marche regione, in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea on the farthest branch of …
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