The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature: A - Ana, 2. köideBlack, 1853 - 840 pages |
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... Nubia . ABACENUM , in Ancient Geography , a town of Sicily , whose ruins are supposed to be those lying near Trippi , a citadel on a high and steep mountain not far from Messina . Fazellus de Reb . Sic . ix . 7. - Diodorus Sicul ...
... Nubia . ABACENUM , in Ancient Geography , a town of Sicily , whose ruins are supposed to be those lying near Trippi , a citadel on a high and steep mountain not far from Messina . Fazellus de Reb . Sic . ix . 7. - Diodorus Sicul ...
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... part in the Scottish law . ABEX , a country of Africa , bordering on the Red Sea , by which it is bounded on the east . It has Nubia or Sen- Abeyance naar on the north ; Sennaar and Abyssinia on A BE A BE 39 tion. ...
... part in the Scottish law . ABEX , a country of Africa , bordering on the Red Sea , by which it is bounded on the east . It has Nubia or Sen- Abeyance naar on the north ; Sennaar and Abyssinia on A BE A BE 39 tion. ...
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... Nubia , to the south of the island of Kogos , in Lat . 22. 20. 11. N. and Long . 31. 40.57 . E. About twenty feet above the river is a temple hewn out of the perpendicular face of the rock . At the entrance are several colossal figures ...
... Nubia , to the south of the island of Kogos , in Lat . 22. 20. 11. N. and Long . 31. 40.57 . E. About twenty feet above the river is a temple hewn out of the perpendicular face of the rock . At the entrance are several colossal figures ...
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... Nubia , on the north - east by the Red Sea , on the south by the country of the Gallas , and on the west by countries almost unknown , in the interior of Africa . Its extent is estimated at about 245,000 geographical square miles , and ...
... Nubia , on the north - east by the Red Sea , on the south by the country of the Gallas , and on the west by countries almost unknown , in the interior of Africa . Its extent is estimated at about 245,000 geographical square miles , and ...
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... Nubia eggs may be baked in the hot sands , and the saying of the Arabs is , " in Nubia the soil is like fire and the wind like a flame . " The regions along the Mediter- ranean and Atlantic coasts are rendered more temperate by the ...
... Nubia eggs may be baked in the hot sands , and the saying of the Arabs is , " in Nubia the soil is like fire and the wind like a flame . " The regions along the Mediter- ranean and Atlantic coasts are rendered more temperate by the ...
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