Abilene

The name Abilene may refer to:

Places

Syria

• Abilene (biblical), a plain in Syria, on the east slope of Anti-Lebanon mountain range — for which most of the places listed below are named, directly or indirectly^[1]

United States

• Abilene, Kansas
• Abilene, Texas
• Abilene, Virginia
• Abilene Trail, a cattle trail leading from Texas to Abilene, Kansas used during the 19th century.
• Abilene State Park, a state park near Abilene, Texas

Movies

• Abilene Town, a 1946 western film starring Randolph Scott
• Gunfight in Abilene, a 1967 western film starring Bobby Darin and Leslie Nielsen
• Gunfighters of Abilene, a 1960 film starring Buster Crabbe

US Military uses

• Operation Abilene (1966), a joint US-Australian military operation in 1966 during the Vietnam War
• Operation Abilene (2003), a US military operation in Al Anbar province in 2003 during the Iraq War
• USS Abilene, a Tacoma-class US navy frigate named after the city of Abilene, Kansas
• Abilene Trophy, is awarded annually to the community in Air Mobility Command that is most supportive of its local Air Force Base

Other uses

• Abilene Network, the American national academic backbone network, part of the Internet2 project
• Abilene paradox, a form of dysfunctional group dynamics
• Abilene (song), a song recorded by George Hamilton IV
• Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad, in Abilene, Kansas
• Abilene and Southern Railway, taken over by Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1978

References

1. George R. Stewart, A Concise Dictionary of American Place-Names. Oxford University Press, 1970.