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The Daily Item · 7 January 1915

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LITTLE CHANGE IN HOLY LAND IN LAST 3000 YEARS

LITTLE CHANGE IN HOLY LAND IN LAST 3000 YEARS — The Daily Item, 7 January 1915
The Daily Item · 7 January 1915

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LITTLE CHANGE IN HOLY LAND IN LAST 3000 YEARS Common People Live in Man- Different ner But Little From Biblical Times.

PALESTINE SACRED TO THREE RELIGIONS H - Strip of Land in Asia Minor les Regarded as Strategic Po- sh ne sition in Present War. he ty The latest land to have been brought within the rapidly expanded war area 18 that thin strip upon the eastern er coast of the Mediterranean sea, the to Holy Land, sacred to he bélievers of 0- three world-religions, to Christians, n- Jewe and Moslems, and groand wherein were cradled ideals which have made nd almost all civilization tributary.

It is a bridge between the Moslem power in Asla Minor and the Moslem power in th Egypt, and so assumes strategic im- portance in the war of the nations. Yet the Holy Land is a land embalmed Je In the spirit and customs of 3000 yeara ago, according to a description of vil- lage life there as by John prep

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"LITTLE CHANGE IN HOLY LAND IN LAST 3000 YEARS," The Daily Item, 7 January 1915. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1915-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1915-003

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