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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... prince now resumed the tactics which had ruined Crassus and Antony ; compelling the Romans to retreat under a shower of darts , and harassed by constant attacks . A severe skir- mish took place at Maronga , though the famished legion ...
... prince now resumed the tactics which had ruined Crassus and Antony ; compelling the Romans to retreat under a shower of darts , and harassed by constant attacks . A severe skir- mish took place at Maronga , though the famished legion ...
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... Prince of Zok- -a place between Betlis and Diarbekir - so powerful , that it was said he could bring no fewer than 20,000 men into the field . In 1836 , when Colonel Sheil passed through it , Reshid Pasha had succeeded in esta- blishing ...
... Prince of Zok- -a place between Betlis and Diarbekir - so powerful , that it was said he could bring no fewer than 20,000 men into the field . In 1836 , when Colonel Sheil passed through it , Reshid Pasha had succeeded in esta- blishing ...
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... prince to cure his parent , that the calamity had been occasioned by his own imprudence , in placing a cap of snow upon his head when overheated by ascend- ing a mountain . Mohammed , who at the time of that gentleman's visit in 1833 ...
... prince to cure his parent , that the calamity had been occasioned by his own imprudence , in placing a cap of snow upon his head when overheated by ascend- ing a mountain . Mohammed , who at the time of that gentleman's visit in 1833 ...
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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 chiefly Christian common Crassus crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon Cyrus death described Diarbekir district east eastern empire enemy Euphrates feet formed former 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 ridges 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