Gilead (disambiguation)

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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
• Gilead, a novel by Marilynne Robinson

The place Gilead is mentioned in the African American spiritual song, Balm in Gilead

There are several places named Gilead in the United States and elsewhere:

• Gilead, Maine
• Gilead Township, Michigan
• Gilead, Nebraska
• Mount Gilead, Ohio
• Mount Gilead, North Carolina
• Gilead, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia

Fictional places called Gilead include:

• Gilead is the principal city of New Canaan, 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.
• The Republic of Gilead is the setting of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.
• Gil'ead is a city in the kingdom of Alagaësia, in Christopher Paolini's novel, Eragon.

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