Mesopotamia and Assyria: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Illustrations of Their Natural HistoryOliver & Boyd, 1842 - 383 páginas |
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... crossed the Euphrates by a bridge of boats , and advanced immediately to Charræ . From hence he despatched 30,000 men , under his kins- man Procopius and Sebastian duke of Egypt , towards Nisibis , to secure that frontier , afterwards ...
... crossed the Euphrates by a bridge of boats , and advanced immediately to Charræ . From hence he despatched 30,000 men , under his kins- man Procopius and Sebastian duke of Egypt , towards Nisibis , to secure that frontier , afterwards ...
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... crossed the range of hills , ascending the valley or ravine behind Samukhah by a very steep path among extensive fig - gardens . A thick oak - forest stretched beyond these to the very summit , which is here about 1500 feet above the ...
... crossed the range of hills , ascending the valley or ravine behind Samukhah by a very steep path among extensive fig - gardens . A thick oak - forest stretched beyond these to the very summit , which is here about 1500 feet above the ...
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... crossed at a small village on its western bank . Al Kosh has been already described . The party passed through many Yezidee villages , and found the people uniformly civil and hospitable . The road , though hilly and bad , is ...
... crossed at a small village on its western bank . Al Kosh has been already described . The party passed through many Yezidee villages , and found the people uniformly civil and hospitable . The road , though hilly and bad , is ...
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according Ainsworth ancient appears Arabs Armenia army Assyria Babel Babylon Babylonian Bagdad banks Birs bitumen bricks building built called canal capital Chaldeans chief Christian common Crassus crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon Cyrus death described desert Diarbekir district east eastern empire enemy Euphrates feet formed former Geographical Greeks ground gypsum height Herodotus Hillah hills horse inhabitants Jezirah Kasr Khabour Khoosroo king Kurdistan Kurds land limestone Mardin marshes Medes mentioned Mesopotamia miles monarch Mosul mounds mountains Mujelibé Nestorian Nimrod Nineveh Ninus Nisibin observed occupied Orfa palace Parthians Pasha passed Persian plain present prince reign remains remarkable Rich Rich's rising river rock Roman ruins Samarra Scripture seen Seleucia sheik Shinar side Sinjar Solymaneah species square stone Strabo stream Surenas Syria Taurus temple of Belus tent thick Tigris tion towers town tract traveller tribe village walls whole Xenophon yards Yezidees