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Land of ancient Ephesus
Answer for the clue "Land of ancient Ephesus ", 4 letters:
onia
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Onia can mean: Plural of onium , a bound state of a particle and its antiparticle Onia, Arkansas , an unincorporated community in Stone County, Arkansas, USA Onia , a New York City based clothing company
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n. (onium English)
Usage examples of onia.
Land of Onias, the Queen of Alexandria and Egypt marched down the shore road from Raphia between the great salt marsh of Lake Sirbonis and the sea, then dug herself in on the Syrian flank of Mount Casius, a sandhill just ten miles from Pelusium.
They also related to a mystical enclave of people who occupied the eastern Delta, the Land of Onias, separate and complete in itself and owning no allegiance to the religious beliefs of either Macedonia or Egypt.
The Land of Onias was the home of the Jews who had fled from Hellenized Judaea after refusing to acknowledge a schismatic high priest, and it kept its fervent Jewishness still.
Pelusium was full of Jews and had strong ties to the Land of Onias, which was vital to all Egyptian Jews because it held the Great Temple.
Pelusiac arm just above Leontopolis and the Land of Onias, which stretched between Leontopolis and Heliopolis.
Malachai, high priest of the Land of Onias, with due ceremony, introduce him to the beaming Mithridates of Pergamum, sit down with both of them and partake of sweet Jewish wine.