Home›The Near East and Egypt›Modern AreaBrowse ByModern AreaThis page groups sacred regions by the present-day country or countries they actually fall inside. Wikipedia notes that the Holy Land "today ... chiefly overlaps with the combined areas of Israel and parts of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Palestine." Browsing by modern-area lets a visitor find every sacred region that falls inside the same present-day country.FactsModern AreaSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRegions 1Modern AreaFilter Results20 entriesParent RegionAllArabia (1)Hejaz (1)Mesopotamia (4)The Levant (2)Principal TraditionAllAncient Egyptian Religion (1)Ancient Greek Religion (1)Caucasian Native Religion (3)Christianity (4)Hittite Religion (1)Islam (7)Judaism (2)Mandaeism (1)Manichaeism (1)Mesopotamian Religion (1)Samaritanism (2)Zoroastrianism (1)Principal Tradition OfAllAncient Egyptian Religion (1)Ancient Greek Religion (1)Caucasian Native Religion (3)Christianity (4)Hittite Religion (1)Islam (7)Judaism (2)Mandaeism (1)Manichaeism (1)Mesopotamian Religion (1)Samaritanism (2)Zoroastrianism (1)Sacred ToAllChristianity (2)Islam (1)Judaism (2)Mesopotamian Religion (4)Samaritanism (2)Sacred LanguagesAllAkkadian (3)Ancient Egyptian (1)Ancient Greek (1)Arabic (7)Armenian (4)Avestan (1)Coptic (1)Georgian (3)Greek (3)Hebrew (2)Latin (2)Middle Persian (1)Sumerian (4)Syriac (4)Established YearAll1650 (1)1922 (1)1923 (1)1932 (2)1943 (1)1946 (2)1948 (1)1960 (1)1961 (1)1971 (3)1979 (1)1990 (1)1991 (3)Establishment StatusAllConfessionalist (1)Declared Not Established (2)Established (11)No Establishment (1)Privileged Never Established (4)Secular State Declared (1)Sovereignty StatusAllSovereign UN member state (19)UN observer state, not a member (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareArmeniaModern Area2 entriesAzerbaijanModern Area2 entriesBahrainModern Area1 entryCyprusModern Area1 entryEgyptModern Area1 entryGeorgiaModern Area2 entriesIranModern Area1 entryIraqModern Area5 entriesIsraelModern Area5 entriesJordanModern Area1 entryKuwaitModern Area2 entriesLebanonModern Area1 entryOmanModern Area1 entryPalestineModern Area4 entriesQatarModern Area1 entrySaudi ArabiaModern Area4 entriesSyriaModern Area2 entriesTurkeyModern Area4 entriesUnited Arab EmiratesModern Area1 entryYemenModern Area1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeCategory: RegionsComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.