The Modern Part of an Universal History From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time; - Couverture rigide

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1354414071 ISBN 13 : 9781354414071

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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The Conclujion of phrares, and fometimes as far as the Hellefpont, or tlic ftreigbt of the Dardanelles; the ill and of Taprobana, now Ceylon, on the coaft of the Mogul empire, was alfo tributary to them, and they poffet Ted in A frica, Egypt, Lybia, and as far as the frontiers of Ethiopia. Origin of Some derive the name of this country from Perfis, one ttiname. of its chief provinces, fo called from Perfeus, a Greek, who fubdued the country, and gave it his own name. The poets make him the fon of Jupiter and Danae, and conqueror of all the Eaft. Others derive its name from Paras, or Pharas, which fignifies a horfeman becaufe Cyrus taught the Perfians the ufe of horfemanftiip, and publimed an edict, ordering all men to travel on horfeback, though their journies were ever fo ihort. This country is called Elam in the Old Teftament, and the inhabitants Elamites, from Elam the fon of Shem, who is faid to have firft planted it after the flood. The Greeks and Romans ufed the modern name of Perfia, and all European nations do the fame, with fome variation in the termination ;but the Turks and Perfians call this councry A gem. Prefent Perfia, at prefent, is bounded on the north by part of trun? !- RufI!a the Caf Pian Sea and the country of the Ufbeck mate an Janc independent Tartars; on the eaft by the Mogul emaift pire, from which a ridge of mountains and the river Indus divide it; on the fouth it has the Arabian Sea, which is part of the ocean and the Perfian Gulf; and on the weft it has Georgia and A ran, or ancient A rmenia, from which the rivers Kar and A ros part it; alfo, the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, which feparate it from the Turkifh empire in A fia. I ts greateft extent from fouth to north is about 19 deg. from 25 deg. 40 min. to 44 deg. 40 mm. that is, one thoufand one hundred and forty Englifh miles; and its greateft extent from eaft to weft is about o
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1354414071
• ISBN 13: 9781354414071
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 506
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible