Mesopotamia and Assyria: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Illustrations of Their Natural HistoryOliver & Boyd, 1841 - 383 páginas |
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... Khabour . But if Beles represents Barba- lissus , the former must be looked for higher up ; and recent investigations lead to the belief that it stood some distance above Racca , on the right bank of the river , — a position which will ...
... Khabour . But if Beles represents Barba- lissus , the former must be looked for higher up ; and recent investigations lead to the belief that it stood some distance above Racca , on the right bank of the river , — a position which will ...
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... Khabour of the present day . But it is clear that these two rivers are entirely different , and could not by any construction be represented as forming the boundary between Armenia and the country of the Carduchians , which last is ...
... Khabour of the present day . But it is clear that these two rivers are entirely different , and could not by any construction be represented as forming the boundary between Armenia and the country of the Carduchians , which last is ...
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... Khabour . Mr Forbes sums up his account of this hitherto un- known tract by observing , that the eastern extremity of the Sinjar Hills is eighty - three miles distant from Mosul , and their western point seventy from Nisibin . The ...
... Khabour . Mr Forbes sums up his account of this hitherto un- known tract by observing , that the eastern extremity of the Sinjar Hills is eighty - three miles distant from Mosul , and their western point seventy from Nisibin . The ...
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