The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideWerner Company, 1896 |
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... Nile , to the S. of Kosseir , nearly as far as the latitude of Derr . Many of the race have settled on the eastern bank of the Nile , but the greater part still live like Bedouins . They are a distinct race from the Arabs , and are ...
... Nile , to the S. of Kosseir , nearly as far as the latitude of Derr . Many of the race have settled on the eastern bank of the Nile , but the greater part still live like Bedouins . They are a distinct race from the Arabs , and are ...
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... Nile in Upper Egypt . Eight others were founded in his lifetime , numbering 3000 monks . Within 50 years from his death his societies could reckon 50,000 members . These cœnobia resembled villages , peopled by a hard - working religious ...
... Nile in Upper Egypt . Eight others were founded in his lifetime , numbering 3000 monks . Within 50 years from his death his societies could reckon 50,000 members . These cœnobia resembled villages , peopled by a hard - working religious ...
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... Nile , and contains a vivid description of a famine caused , during the author's residence in Egypt , by the river failing to overflow its banks . The work gives an authentic detailed account of the state of Egypt during the middle ages ...
... Nile , and contains a vivid description of a famine caused , during the author's residence in Egypt , by the river failing to overflow its banks . The work gives an authentic detailed account of the state of Egypt during the middle ages ...
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... Nile is the spacious bay of Aboukir , where Nelson fought " the Battle of the Nile , " defeating and almost destroying the French fleet that had conveyed Napoleon to Egypt . It was near Aboukir that the expedition to Egypt , under Sir ...
... Nile is the spacious bay of Aboukir , where Nelson fought " the Battle of the Nile , " defeating and almost destroying the French fleet that had conveyed Napoleon to Egypt . It was near Aboukir that the expedition to Egypt , under Sir ...
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