Sparta
Ancient site, identified with Sparta.
Placesettlement0 verses
Outside this corpus
Named in 1 Maccabees 12:2, 1 Maccabees 14:16, 2 Maccabees 5:9 — books carried by the Catholic and Orthodox Old Testaments but not by the Berean Standard Bible, which is the 66-book text this site is built on. Jonathan and Simon exchanged letters with the Spartans, who are called kin of the Jews.
So it has no chapter to link to here, and that is a fact about this edition rather than about the place.
Where was it?
One proposed modern location, with the scholarly support recorded for it.
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