Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the Recent Researches in Those Countries, Tom 18A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 - 436 |
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... Media , and give Susiana and Babylonia as its southern boundaries . It would seem that anciently the country north - west of the Lycus was called Aturia , a mere dialectical variation of the name Assyria : from this the name spread west ...
... Media , and give Susiana and Babylonia as its southern boundaries . It would seem that anciently the country north - west of the Lycus was called Aturia , a mere dialectical variation of the name Assyria : from this the name spread west ...
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... Media . Holy Scripture declares that he was killed while worshipping in the house of Nisroch , his god , by his two eldest sons . There has been much ques- tion who the god was , who is here mentioned under the name of Nisroch . Yet ...
... Media . Holy Scripture declares that he was killed while worshipping in the house of Nisroch , his god , by his two eldest sons . There has been much ques- tion who the god was , who is here mentioned under the name of Nisroch . Yet ...
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... Media took advantage of it in the manner narrated by the classical authors . * After a reign which could not have exceeded nine years , Sennacherib perished in the manner narrated above , and was succeeded by his third son , Esarhaddon ...
... Media took advantage of it in the manner narrated by the classical authors . * After a reign which could not have exceeded nine years , Sennacherib perished in the manner narrated above , and was succeeded by his third son , Esarhaddon ...
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... Media , B.C. 634. Some curious particulars of his history may be collected from a comparison of the record of Holy Scripture with that of Herodotus . Thus the Book of Judith mentions that " in the 12th year of the reign of Nabuchodo ...
... Media , B.C. 634. Some curious particulars of his history may be collected from a comparison of the record of Holy Scripture with that of Herodotus . Thus the Book of Judith mentions that " in the 12th year of the reign of Nabuchodo ...
Strona 37
... Media and wins the battle of Ragau or Rhages . Previous , however , to his taking the field , we are told , both by the sacred and profane historians , that he solicited the aid of the nations who had been the former allies of his house ...
... Media and wins the battle of Ragau or Rhages . Previous , however , to his taking the field , we are told , both by the sacred and profane historians , that he solicited the aid of the nations who had been the former allies of his house ...
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