A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Moroni, Land of
MORONI, LAND OF. The district immediately surrounding the city of the same name. It had for its eastern boundary, the Atlantic ocean, and the great wilderness that separated the Nephites from the Lamanites lay along its southern edge; indeed, until it was settled by the Nephites (about B. C. 72), it formed a portion of that wilderness. The events associated with this land, that are given in the greatest detail in the Book of Mormon, are those connected with the close of the great war commenced by Amalickiah, and continued by his brother Ammoron. In B. C. 61, the Lamanites had been driven out of every Nephite land which they had previously captured, except Moroni, where their armies were massed on the borders of the wilderness. The day after their king, Ammoron, was slain by Teancum, Moroni drove the Lamanites out of the land of Moroni, into their own country, and thus ended this long-continued and disastrous war.