This book contains papers that reflect the wide-ranging interests of the Dutch archaeologist Maurits van Loon—prehistory, art history, and ancient history.
Author: O.M.C. Haex
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Why then was it called the Hebrew tongue ? was Populus gravis , a great people
, a numerous as it because it was spoken beyond the Euphrates ? sembly .
Musca gravissima , a very troublesome as we have observed , that Abraham was
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For this reason the the sea — the total length of the road right bank of the
Euphrates would being only sixty miles . ... have nothing right bank of the
Euphrates . beyond the safety of the Mediter The mountain - wall which
separranean termiņus ...
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The same authority describes the prolongation of the larger branch of the
Euphrates , beyond the Kasr Ibn Hobierah , by the name of Nahar Sares . This
name means “ fetid river , " and it appears to have been given to that portion of
the ...
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Nevertheless position fignifying beyond , and beyond fignifying the people
beyond the Kenite foall be wasted , until ... This pal people bordering on the
Euphrates , they as well as the Affyrians . sage Theweth , that they were wasted ,
and ...
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Below me , a little to the east lay the village of Dhumayr , the last permanently
inhabited spot on this side of the Euphrates ; beyond it stretched the illimitable
desert ; barely visible in a southerly direction was the water - line of the marshy
lakes ...
Author: Laurence Oliphant
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Elisée Reclus. Kurdish and Armenian highlands between Trans - Caucasia and
the Upper Euphrates . ... Beyond this point the chief crest of these highlands runs
for 150 miles westwards parallel with the Euxine seaboard . Here an opening is ...
Author: Elisée Reclus
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Here thou beholdest Assyria , and her empire's ancient bounds , Aràxes and the
Caspian lake ; thence on As far as Indus east , Euphrates west , And oft beyond ;
to south the Persian bay , And inaccessible , the Arabian drought ; Here Nineveh
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Author: John Milton
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Here thou beholdest Assyria , and her empire ' s ancient bounds , Araxes and the
Caspian lake ; thence on As far as Indus east , Euphrates west , And oft beyond ;
to south the Persian bay , And inaccessible the Arabian drought ; Here Nineveh ...
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Select Committee on Euphrates Valley Railway. up by sand . Mr. W.J.
constructing a harbour at Suediah ? -- I have not vation . The land is suitable for
cultivation three Maxwell . gone into that question . miles beyond Jaybul ; then
comes a ...
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Euphrates Valley Railway
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Numerous mud villages , and the Euphrates , beyond which the fertile more in
ruins , imparted interest , if not plain stretches to a great distance ; while beauty ,
to the scenery , while the occa on every other side , with the exception sional ...
Author: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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Josephus himself very clearly shows whom he meant by the phrase , naming the
Parthians , Babylonians , the most remote Arabs , and the Jews beyond the
Euphrates : Táptovs , xai Babulariovs , ' Apoßov te tous nooowróro , xui tò únèg ...
Author: Edward Robinson
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Josephus himself very clearly shows whom he meant by the phrase , naming the
Parthians , Babylonians , the most remote Arabs , and the Jews beyond the
Euphrates : Icyjovs , xai Baßulorious , ' Αράβων τε τους πορρωτάτω , και το υπέρ
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Kurdish and Armenian highlands between Trans - Caucasia and the Upper
Euphrates . ... Beyond this point the chief crest of these highlands runs for 150
miles westwards parallel with the Euxine seaboard . Here an opening is at last
made for ...
Author: Elisée Reclus
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Chronology exists only for about five thousand years backwards from our time ,
and originally in Egypt alone , which itself was a depository of the extinct ,
submerged , original Asia about the sources of the Euphrates , beyond Babylon
and ...
Author: Baroness Frances Waddington Bunsen
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Chronology exists only for about five thousand years backwards from our time ,
and originally in Egypt alone , which itself was a depository of the extinct ,
submerged , original Asia about the sources of the Euphrates , beyond Babylon
and ...
Author: baroness Frances Waddington Bunsen
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Occasionally “ beyond " with relation to the Jordan means " west " from a
standpoint on the east of the river , and this is the translation of the GNB in Dt
3.20 . In connection with the Euphrates , “ beyond " means " west " from a Persian
standpoint ...
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The River was the Euphrates , beyond which were tracts indefinitely known as
Elam and Media , and still beyond a region known as “ The Ends of the Earth . ”
Gog , Magog , and the North have been usually supposed to refer to the
inhabitants ...
Author: Frank Boott Goodrich
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