Gilead_(disambiguation) Gilead_(disambiguation)

Gilead (disambiguation) - Definition and Overview

Gilead could refer to:

  • Gilead, the name of three persons and two places in the Bible
  • Gilead Sciences, the biotech company based in Foster City, California

There are several places named Gilead in the United States:

Fictional places called Gilead include:

  • Gilead is the kingdom from which Roland, the central character in The Dark Tower series of novels by Stephen King, hails. King's Gilead is said to be a namesake of the Biblical Gilead, and its principal city is known as New Canaan.
  • The Gilead Republic is the name of the government in the fictional novel, The Handmaid's Tale.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
Copyright 2009 WordIQ.com - Privacy Policy  :: Terms of Use  :: Contact Us  :: About Us
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the this Wikipedia article.