Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן‎, Tziyyon) is a mountain near Jerusalem. Most often Zion is used as a synecdoche for Jerusalem and the Land of Israel. Dormition Church, situated on the modern Mount Zion Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, tziyyon; Tiberian vocalization: tsiyyôn; transliterated Zion or Sion) is a term that most often designates the land of Israel and its capital Jerusalem. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Hebrew יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (Yerushalayim) (Standard) Yerushalayim or Yerushalaim Arabic commonly القـُدْس (Al-Quds); officially in Israel أورشليم القدس (Urshalim-Al-Quds) Name Meaning Hebrew: (see below), Arabic: The Holiness Government City District Jerusalem Population 724,000 (2006) Jurisdiction 123,000 dunams (123 km²) Jerusalem (Hebrew:  , Yerushaláyim or Yerushalaim; Arabic:  , al-Quds, the Holiness)[2... Look up synecdoche in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Kingdom of Israel: Early ancient historical Israel — land in pink is the approximate area under direct central royal administration during the United Monarchy. ...

Zion can also refer to:

In politics and religion

• Zionism, the chief ideology supporting a Jewish homeland in Israel
  • World Zionist Organization, a group dedicated to the Zionist cause founded at the First Zionist Congress in 1897
• Zionism (southern African religion), a movement in African Christianity with a syncretic mixing of Christian and traditional African religious beliefs
  • Zion Christian Church, a large denomination among African Zionists
• Zion (Mormonism), a place of holiness (sometimes associated with an actual city, a New Jerusalem); also used to refer to Mormon-controlled land in general
• Zionites (Germany), a religious sect from the 18th century based in western Germany
• Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, also known as the Zionites, a fringe church founded in 1896 by John Alexander Dowie in Zion, Illinois that believed in a flat Earth
• Christian Zionists, Christians who believe that the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was a significant fulfilment of Biblical prophecy.
• Zionist Christians, Christians who belong to one of the numerous Zionist Churches, found mainly in southern Africa

Zionism is a political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where Jewish nationhood is thought to have evolved somewhere between 1200 BCE and late Second Temple times,[1][2] and where Jewish kingdoms existed up to the 2nd century CE. Zionism is... The World Zionist Organization, or WZO, was founded as the Zionist Organization, or ZO, on September 3, 1897, at the First Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland. ... The World Zionist Organization [WZO] was founded as the Zionist Organization [ZO] on September 3, 1897, at the First Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland. ... Zionism is a key movement within the African Initiated Churches and is particularly strong in southern Africa; research in 1996 suggested that 40% of all black South Africans belonged to a Zionist church. ... The Star of David, symbol of the Zion Christian Church. ... The original plat of the City of Zion (Independence, Missouri). ... The Zionites were a sect of visionary fanatics which flourished in the eighteenth century at Ronsdorf in the Duchy of Berg. ... The Christian Catholic Church, later known as the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, was a religious group founded in 1896 by John Alexander Dowie. ... Zion is a city located in Lake County, Illinois. ... Christian Zionism is the belief among some denominations of Protestant Christians, mainly in the United States, that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, through the estabishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy, and is a necessary precondition for the return... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Bible prophecy is the concept held by various people that many Bible verses contain prophecies. ... for Christians who believe that the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was a fulfilment of Biblical prophecy, see Christian Zionists For other meanings, see Zionism (disambiguation) Zionist Churches are a group of Christian denominations that sprang from the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, Illinois. ... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Zionism (southern African religion). ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Southern Africa ...

In geography

• Mount Zion, the modern name of a hill south of the Jerusalem Old City's Armenian Quarter — the result of a misnomer dating from the Middle Ages when pilgrims mistook the relatively large, flat summit for the original site of the City of David
• Mount Zion, 3575', located in Big Santa Anita Canyon, Angeles National Forest, California, U.S.
• Zion National Park, a park in southwestern Utah, notable for Zion Canyon sweeping through the reddish desert
• Zion, Illinois, a city in Illinois just north of Chicago founded by John Alexander Dowie
• Zion, Pennsylvania, a town in central Pennsylvania
• Zion Township, Minnesota, a small township in central Minnesota
• Zion, Missouri, a village in Missouri
• Zion, Oklahoma, a village in eastern Oklahoma
• Mount Zion, Auckland Region, New Zealand, 262m, near Karekare
• Zionsville, Indiana. a small city in Indiana
• Zion (Taiwan), a mountain in Sanming County, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Mount Zion (Hebrew: ‎ transliteration: Har Tziyyon - Height) is the ancient name of a mountain in jerusalem southe of the old city. ... Zion National Park is a United States National Park located near Springdale, Utah in the Southwestern United States. ... Zion is a city located in Lake County, Illinois. ... Zion is a census-designated place located in Centre County, Pennsylvania. ... Zion Township is a township located in Stearns County, Minnesota. ... Zion is an unincorporated community in southern Madison County, Missouri. ... Zion is a census-designated place located in Adair County, Oklahoma. ... Zionsville is a town located in the extreme southeast area of Boone County, Indiana. ... Kaohsiung County (高雄縣, pinyin: Gāoxióng Xiàn) is a county in southern Taiwan administered as part of Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. ...

In fiction

• Zion, a space station in Neuromancer (1984), a William Gibson cyberpunk novel
• Zion (The Matrix), a human-controlled underground city in the Matrix series
• An alternative spelling of Zeon.

Neuromancer by William Gibson is the most famous early cyberpunk novel and won the so-called science-fiction triple crown (the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and the Hugo Award) after being published in 1984. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the The Matrix films, Zion was the last human city, which existed deep underground to hide itself from its enemies as well as for warmth. ... Zeons Emblem In the TV anime Mobile Suit Gundam (Universal Century series) universe, Zeon can refer to the Republic of Zeon, the Principality of Zeon or Neo-Zeon. ...

In popular culture

• Zion (IRC) a program used by Blizzard gamers mainly for lan emulation
• Zion I, a hip-hop group
• Tool songwriter Maynard James Keenan mentions Zion in "Wings For Marie"
• Among those who put to music Psalm 137:1 (“By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion”) were The Melodians and Boney M
• A song in the album "Five in the Black" by popular Asian group TVXQ.
• "To Zion", a song from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, for her son, Zion.

Zion I is a hip hop duo that started in Oakland, California. ... Tool is an American progressive rock band, formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California, when drummer Danny Carey joined the rehearsal of his neighbor, singer Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Paul dAmour, when nobody else would show up. ... Maynard James Keenan (born April 17, 1964, as James Herbert Keenan) is an American rock singer. ... Psalms (Tehilim תהילים, in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Babylon (in Arabic: بابل; in Syriac: ܒܒܙܠ in Hebrew:בבל) was an ancient city in Mesopotamia (modern Al Hillah, Iraq), the ruins of which can be found in present-day Babil Province, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Baghdad. ... The Melodians were considered one of Jamaicas greatest rocksteady bands. ... Boney M was a Eurodance, pop, and disco group, comprising four West Indian singers and dancers and masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian, and who were successful during the 1970s. ... TVXQ (Tong Vfang Xien Qi) is a Korean boy band. ...

Other references

• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an anti-Semitic tract wherein a (fictional, though the text claims otherwise) Jewish conspiracy details their evil plans for world domination
• Priory of Sion, a society created in 1956 by Pierre Plantard, and later given a fictional prehistory wherein it was founded during the Crusades
• Zion Nuclear Power Station, a decommissioned nuclear power plant in Zion, Illinois
• A Silver Mt. Zion, a Canadian Post-rock band
• One part of the now defunct reggaeton duo Zion y Lennox.

1992 Russian language imprint, adapting Eliphas Levis portrayal of Baphomet image The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Russian: , see also other titles) is an antisemitic literary forgery that purports to describe a Jewish plot to achieve world domination. ... Prieuré de Sion, usually rendered in English translation as Priory of Sion or even Priory of Zion, is an elusive protagonist in many works of both non-fiction and fiction. ... Zion Station is the third dual-reactor station in the Commonwealth Edison network and serves Chicago and the northern one-fourth of Illinois. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. ... Reggaeton (spelled optionally with the acute diacritic in English and known as Reguetón and Reggaetón in Spanish) is a form of dance music which became popular with Latin American (or Latino) youth during the early 1990s and spread to North American, European, Asian, and Australian audiences during the... Picture source:Zion-Baby. ...

See also

• Sion (disambiguation)
• Mount Zion, for a list of places (other than the Biblical one) known by that name

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