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The city of Zarahemla and its people, led by a man named Zarahemla, were discovered by Mosiah 1 and the Nephites around 200 B.C. as they fled the land of Nephi, leading to the unification of the two groups under Mosiah’s kingship (Omni 1:12-19).
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Based upon the Book of Mormon’s description of the rise and fall of the land of Zarahemla, the physical domain of the Nephite nation must have been relatively small in comparison to the size of all the land southward of the line between Desolation and Bountiful.
The Land of Zarahemla encompasses the area south of the Land of Bountiful and north of the Lamanite Line of Possession, which is bordered by the Seas East and West. Much of this land was altered at the coming of Jesus; many cities were destroyed.
The book of Omni in the Book of Mormon tells how Zarahemla and his people came to settle the land of Zarahemla in the New World. Mosiah and his refugee people presumably united with the people of Zarahemla sometime between 279 and 130 B.C. "Mosiah was appointed to be their king."
With the River Sidon identified, we can identify the location of the city and land of Zarahemla. We may surmise that because the Lamanites and robbers occupied the Western Seashore, the Mulekites would have avoided them and ventured inland, no doubt following the Buffalo River as they went.
“The Mosiah Map,” johnhiltoniii.com There are eight key journeys in-depth in Omni 1:12-30 and Mosiah 7-24—let’s use this map (based on one designed by the Church Educational System) to keep track of them. The first one (“Journey 1,” see Omni 1:12–13) is where Mosiah 1 led a group of people
