The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... town . After this period Gabii always appears in history as the ally or dependent of its more powerful neighbour , and it gradually fell into such a state of decay as to become a proverb of desolation - Gabiis desertior . The fame of ...
... town . After this period Gabii always appears in history as the ally or dependent of its more powerful neighbour , and it gradually fell into such a state of decay as to become a proverb of desolation - Gabiis desertior . The fame of ...
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... town of a circle in Bohemia , is situated in a hilly country on the river Neisse , about 6 miles S.E. of Reichenberg . It possesses a Catholic and a Protestant church , a city school , a hospital , and a fine new town - house . Its ...
... town of a circle in Bohemia , is situated in a hilly country on the river Neisse , about 6 miles S.E. of Reichenberg . It possesses a Catholic and a Protestant church , a city school , a hospital , and a fine new town - house . Its ...
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... town of an oasis of the same name , in that part of the Sahara which belongs to the regency of Tripoli , not far from the frontier of Algeria . According to Dr Rohlfs , the last form of the word more correctly represents the Arabic ...
... town of an oasis of the same name , in that part of the Sahara which belongs to the regency of Tripoli , not far from the frontier of Algeria . According to Dr Rohlfs , the last form of the word more correctly represents the Arabic ...
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... town are full of tombs excavated in the limestone rock , and by a curious irony of fate these chambers of the dead are the only places where a living inhabitant of Gadara is to be found . According to Josephus , Gadara was a Greek city ...
... town are full of tombs excavated in the limestone rock , and by a curious irony of fate these chambers of the dead are the only places where a living inhabitant of Gadara is to be found . According to Josephus , Gadara was a Greek city ...
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... town of Russia , at the head of a district in the government of Poltava , situated on the elevated banks of the Grun and the Psel , 73 miles N.N.W. of Poltava , in 50 ° 22 ′ N. lat . and 34 ° 0 ′ E. long . It is a plain wood - built town ...
... town of Russia , at the head of a district in the government of Poltava , situated on the elevated banks of the Grun and the Psel , 73 miles N.N.W. of Poltava , in 50 ° 22 ′ N. lat . and 34 ° 0 ′ E. long . It is a plain wood - built town ...
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