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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, and particularly at Babylon. He reduced Tyre after asiege of thirteen years : sacked Jerusalem, and carried off its inhabitants;and invaded Egypt. There is little to record of his successors, Ecil-Mcrodich, B.C. 561-559; Xci-ii^issar, B.C. 559-556; and Lahorosoarchod,B.C. 556-555. Xabon:idius commenced his reign just as Cyrus weis enter-ing upon his Lydian war: he entered into alliance with Croesus, andfortified his own territory against the Medes. Cyrus commenced hisinvasion of Babylonia b c. 54n, and, having defeated the enemy in theopen field, he laid siege to Babylon, which was then under the care ofBil-sh:(r-z r, the Belshazzar of the Bible, and, entering by the dry bedof the Euphrates, captured the city. Xabonadius had retired to Bor-sippa, where he was taken prisoner by Cyrus, B.C. 538. HenceforthBabylonia formed a portion of the Persian empire.
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Mound of Ximroud. (From Layards ^inevch.) III. Assyria. § 8. Assyria was bounded on the X. by the range of Xiphates ;on the E. by that of Zagriis ; on the S.E. by Susiana ; on the W.and S.W. by the Tigris. The northern and eastern portions ofAssyria are mountainous, the former being covered with rangesemanating from the Armenian highlands, and the latter with thesecondary ridges of the Zagrns chain. The southern and westerndistricts, as high up as Xineveh, on the other hand, partake moreof the character df the Mesopotamian plain, though more diversifiedwith heights and river-courses. The plains of Ass)Tia, as of Meso-potamia, are alternately a garden and a wilderness, the excessiveheat of summer completely parching up the vegetation. The hillydistrict varies in character, the rising gimmd adjacent to the plainbeing well watered and productive, the intermediate hills of an arid Chap. XII. IIIYEKS — INHABITAXTS — TOWXS. 217 character, and the higher elevations of Zagrus well wooded

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