A person or agency that supplies goods or services, particularly medical or paramedical services. [L. pro-videre] n 1. a governmental term used to denote health care institutions; sometimes used as a synonym for. practitioner. 2. used by insurance companies to denote the practitioner of the health care service(s).
Location and Values: The Nubian monuments are located on the shores of (the man-made) Lake Nasser in the far south of Egypt, and include temples from 11 separate sites between the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae (below the Aswan dam site) and the great Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, 280 km to the south.
Two days' journey beyond Rakka, where the Euphrates breaks through the basalt dike of el-IIamme, are two admirably preserved ruins, built of gypsum and basalt, that on the Mesopotamian side called Zelebiya (Chanuga), and that on the Syrian, much the finer of the two, Halebiya or Zenobiya, the ancient Zenobia.