Veld: Veld, (Afrikaans: âfieldâ) name given to various types of open country in Southern Africa that is used for pasturage and farmland. To most South African farmers today the
Introduction-Book of Revelation. The Apostle John is the author of the Book of Revelation. He wrote it when he was about 92 years old, while a prisoner of Rome on the remote desert penal colony of Patmos, an island in the Aegean Sea.Patmos was a quarry mine for the Roman Empire, and was home to many political and religious prisoners or slaves.ohn, the beloved apostle of Jesus, was being held as a prisoner of Rome on this island for his incessant preaching about Jesus. Rome believed that banishing the old man John to the remote and forsaken island of Patmos, that his voice would be quieted.
Paros is an island in the Cyclades group in the central Aegean. It is the third largest island of the Cyclades and its position on important sea routes between mainland Greece and the coast of Asia Minor made it an important centre from the early Bronze Age through to Roman times.he Aegean Sea features prominently in many of the most famous Greek myths. The early inhabitants of Greece, the Mycenaens, relied heavily on the Aegean for trade and, it seems, traveled as far as Spain and Egypt.