Abila is the name of several places:
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Abila is the name of several places:
Cities
- Abila (Decapolis)
Abila Dekapoleos – Abila in the Decapolis or Abila was an ancient city, near the Hieromax river in the Decapolis; the site is occupied by two tells and the village of Hartha, circa 13 km north-northeast of Irbid, Jordan.The site has been...
, also called Seleucia, northeast of Irbid, Jordan
- Abilene (biblical)
Abilene or simply Abila was a plain, a district in Coele-Syria, of which the chief town was Abila Lysaniou...
- Abila Lysaniou
Abila Lysaniou or Abila Lysaniae or Abila was an ancient city, on the Abana River and capital of ancient Abilene, Coele-Syria. The site is currently that of the village Suk Wadi Barada , circa northwest of Damascus, Syria...
, capital of ancient Abilene, northwest of Damascus, Syria
- Abila (Peraea)
Abila – also, Biblical: Abel-Shittim or Ha-Shittim – was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in Moab, later Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea; the site is now that of Abil-ez-Zeit, Jordan. Abel-Shittim , is found only in Num...
, northeast of the northern shore of the Dead Sea, currently in northwestern Jordan
- Abila, a Latin name for Ávila
Ávila de los Caballeros is the capital of the province of the same name, now part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain.-Geography:...
, Spain
Mountains
- Monte Hacho
Monte Hacho is a low mountain that overlooks the Spanish city of Ceuta, on the north coast of Africa. Monte Hacho is positioned on the Mediterranean coast at the Strait of Gibraltar opposite Gibraltar, and along with the Rock of Gibraltar is claimed by some to be one of the Pillars of Hercules .In...
(Abila Mons), the southern of the Pillars of Hercules on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta