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Mattan III
Mattan may refer to: * Mattan, Jammu and Kashmir, a town in India * Matan (given name), also spelt Mattan, a Hebrew given name * Mattan I, a 9th-century BC Phoenician king * Mattan, a minor Biblical figure * Mahmood Hussein Mattan (died 1952), Somali seaman * Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan, Palestinian detainee at Guantanamo Bay * Nico Mattan Nico Mattan (born 17 July 1971) is a Belgian former road racing cyclist. His greatest achievement in cycling was winning the Gent–Wevelgem classic in 2005. In 2005 Mattan won the Gent–Wevelgem in a controversial way, as there were claims ... (born 1971), Belgian cyclist * Pritam Singh Mattan, Mauritian executive See also * Matan (other) * Matton (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matan (given Name)
Matan or Mattan (original Biblical translation: Mattan, modern Israeli translation: Matan, , ) is a Hebrew name, mostly for males in Israel. It is coming from the word 'gift' and literally means "giving". It is part of the title of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot that is also known as "Z'man Mattan Torah" meaning " hetime f thegiving f theTorah." A biblical reference for a Mattan as a given name is the story told in Books of Kings about the Baal priest Mattan, killed by the people of the Kingdom of Judah during a revolution. In the Gospel of Matthew, Matthan is the paternal grandfather of Joseph, father of Jesus. King Zedekiah's birth name was originally Mattanyahu. People * Matan Balestra (born 1992), Israeli footballer currently playing for Sektzia Nes Tziona on loan from Maccabi Netanya * Matan Baltaxa (born 1995), Israeli footballer currently playing for Hapoel Acre * Matan Barashi (born 1988), Israeli footballer currently playing for Ironi Beit Shemesh * Matan Cohen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattan I
Mattan, Matan, or Mittin ruled Tyre (Lebanon), Tyre from 840 to 832 BC, succeeding his father Baal-Eser II. He was the father of Pygmalion of Tyre, Pygmalion, king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC, and of Dido (Queen of Carthage), Dido, the legendary queen of Carthage. The primary information related to Mattan I comes from Josephus’s citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus in ''Against Apion'' i.18. Here it is said that "Baal-Eser II, Badezorus was succeeded by Matgenus his son: he lived thirty-two years and reigned, nine years: Pygmalion succeeded him". Alternative dates for his reign, from 829 to 821 BC, are given in the work of Frank Moore Cross, F. M. Cross and other scholars who take 825 BC as the date of Dido’s flight from her brother Pygmalion, after which she founded the city of Carthage in 814 BC. For those wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Minor Old Testament Figures, L–Z
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmood Hussein Mattan
Mahmood Hussein Mattan (1923 – 3 September 1952) was a Somali former merchant seaman who was wrongfully convicted, in the United Kingdom, of the murder of Lily Volpert on 6 March 1952. The murder took place in the Docklands area of Cardiff, Wales, and Mattan was mainly convicted on the evidence of a single prosecution witness. Mattan was executed in 1952. His conviction was quashed 45 years later on 24 February 1998, his case being the first to be referred to the Court of Appeal by the newly formed Criminal Cases Review Commission. Early life Mahmood Hussein Mattan was born in British Somaliland in 1923 and his job as a merchant seaman took him to Wales where he settled in Tiger Bay in the docks district of Cardiff. There he met Laura Williams, a worker at a paper factory. The couple married just three months after meeting. As a multiracial couple they suffered racist abuse from the community. The couple had three children, but in 1950 they separated and afterwards liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding three Palestinian detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 778 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only twenty new detainees, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. Cageprisoners states a fourth individual, named Hussein Azzam, is a former detainee at Guantanamo. On September 16, 2009 Hungary agreed to accept the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee from Palestine. On February 24, 2010, Spain accepted the transfer of an individual Guantanamo detainee from Palestine. The former detainee will be free to live and work in Spain, and to travel freely within Spain, but he will not be allowed to travel from Spain to other countries. To preserve the detainee's privacy Spanish authoritie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Mattan
Nico Mattan (born 17 July 1971) is a Belgian former road racing cyclist. His greatest achievement in cycling was winning the Gent–Wevelgem classic in 2005. In 2005 Mattan won the Gent–Wevelgem in a controversial way, as there were claims that he used Publicity cars to sprint past Juan Antonio Flecha. He also won 2 prologues of Paris–Nice, in 2001 and 2003. He is known to be very superstitious, for instance his lucky number is 17 (the date of his birthdate), if his race number is 17 or if the ciphers add up to 17, he will look very happy and believes he will win. Once he got number 13 and wore it upside down to avoid bad luck because he heard on a 13th that he wouldn't be able to race anymore because of heart problems and lost the leader's jersey in Paris–Nice on a 13th. Major results ;1996 : 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium in the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pritam Singh Mattan
Pritam Singh Mattan, born in Mauritius in the village of Bois Cheri, was rather briefly the Chief Executive of Rodrigues Island, Mauritius, from March 5 until August 24, 2010. Prior to this, he was the head of the island's Commission for Tourism since August 2006 and the Director of Rodrigues Tourism Office and Discovery Rodrigues Co Ltd. He worked in different managerial positions in the private and public sector in Mauritius in organizations such as the Compagnie Mauricienne De Textile Ltee, the Grand Port Savanne District Council, the Sugar Insurance Fund Board and the Wastewater Management Authority, before taking employment in Rodrigues with the Rodrigues Regional Assembly. He has a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Mauritius The University of Mauritius (UoM) () is the national university of Mauritius. It is the oldest and largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and the curriculum offered. The public university's main c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matan (other)
Matan may refer to: * Matan, Israel, a settlement in central Israel * Matan (given name), a Hebrew given name (including a list of people with the name) * Matan I, 9th-century BC Phoenician king * Alexandru Mățan, Romanian footballer See also * El Matan, Israeli outpost in the West Bank * Matan Women's Institute for Torah Studies * Madhan (other) * Maton {{Disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
