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Mount Zion

Mount Zion ( transliteration: Har Tziyyon - "Height") is an archaic term that originally referred to a specific mountain near Jerusalem. The term became a synecdoche referring to the entire city of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel; it is often shortened to simply "Zion."

Mount Zion can also refer to:
*Mount Zion, Illinois, a city in central Illinois
*Mount Zion, Georgia, a town in northwestern Georgia
*Mount Zion, Wisconsin
*Mount Zion, Taiwan
*Mount Zion, Jamaica
*A Silver Mt. Zion, a Canadian post-rock band

See also

*Zion (disambiguation)
*Sion (disambiguation)



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