Palmyrena

alternative Palmyrene

1. A historical region of Syria. Capital: Palmyra.

   One originates from Khirbet Abu Duhur in the north-western Palmyrena.

   1995, Klaas Dijkstra, Life and Loyalty

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   Beſides this, all Judæa and Iſrael were now maſtered to his hands; all the Arabians his borderers, the Syrians of Zobah, of Damaſcena, of Palmyrena, of Ituræa; all of Idumæa, Moab, and Ammon, paid him tribute; as likewiſe did the Hittites, who with the Perizzites, Hevites, Jebuſites, and other races of the Canaanites, were not as yet extinguiſhed, though ſubjected.

   1614, Walter Raleigh, The Historie of the World, page 419

   [...] Taking his Journey through the dangerous and barren Desarts of Palmyrena ; [...]

   1695, Simon Patrick, A Commentary Upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis

   [...] and then visited all the Borders of his Dominions; from Palmyrena in the North [...]

   1698, An Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World

   Southward from Palmyrena stretches a vast expanse of desert, the true home of the nomad from the earliest times, a land that has never been suited to cultivation.

   1927, Geographical Review, volume 17, page 192

   By studying the Antonine Itinerary we get a fairly good idea of the northern and western borders of Palmyrena, [...]

   1928, Oriental Explorations and Studies, number 4, page 238