Five Years in Damascus: Including an Account of the History, Topography, and Antiquities of that City : with Travels and Researches in Palmyra, Lebanon, and the Hauran, Volume 2John Murray, 1855 - Damascus (Syria) |
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... LAND OF ISRAEL . " - Mount Hor Identification of ZEDAD and HAZARENAN Night march and adventures with Bedawîn Ride by Malula to Damascus - Site of Comochara 354-359 - - Nebk 359-366 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . VOL . II . Interior of vi ...
... LAND OF ISRAEL . " - Mount Hor Identification of ZEDAD and HAZARENAN Night march and adventures with Bedawîn Ride by Malula to Damascus - Site of Comochara 354-359 - - Nebk 359-366 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . VOL . II . Interior of vi ...
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... Lands , there- fore , and visiting some of those cities and provinces whose names are among the earliest found in Scripture history , it will not be thought strange that I should linger amid their ruins , and investigate monuments that ...
... Lands , there- fore , and visiting some of those cities and provinces whose names are among the earliest found in Scripture history , it will not be thought strange that I should linger amid their ruins , and investigate monuments that ...
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... land . A small party of Druzes were returning home after having disposed of their wheat in the city . They were seen and attacked by some Kurdish irregulars . In self - defence they fired upon their assailants , and killed the Kurdish ...
... land . A small party of Druzes were returning home after having disposed of their wheat in the city . They were seen and attacked by some Kurdish irregulars . In self - defence they fired upon their assailants , and killed the Kurdish ...
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... land , there is no record of its history . In half an hour more we reached Kabr es - Sit , a populous village , surrounded by fields and gardens of great fertility . This is considered a place of great sanctity by the Mus- lems ...
... land , there is no record of its history . In half an hour more we reached Kabr es - Sit , a populous village , surrounded by fields and gardens of great fertility . This is considered a place of great sanctity by the Mus- lems ...
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... land to the river - side . The ' Awaj is here spanned by an ancient and substantial stone bridge , at the distance of about half a mile from the village . After crossing it we reined up our horses in the midst of the caravan , now ...
... land to the river - side . The ' Awaj is here spanned by an ancient and substantial stone bridge , at the distance of about half a mile from the village . After crossing it we reined up our horses in the midst of the caravan , now ...
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Abulfeda afterwards ancient Antilibanus appears Arab Argob Baalbek bank basalt Bashan Batanæa Bathanyeh beautiful Bedawîn border Bostra Bozrah building Burckhardt Busrah called caravan castle Christian church columns crossed Damascus declivity Deir Der'a deserted distance door Druze east eastern eastward Edom Edrei extends Fcap feet Gaulanitis Gilead glen Greek inscription half an hour Hamath heaps hills History horses houses inhabitants Jabbok Jebel Haurân Josephus Kenath Kerioth Kunawât Kureiyeh latter Lejah Libanus lofty Mahmûd miles minutes Moab monument mosk mountains Mûsa nearly northern observed passed plain Plates Portrait Post 8vo province ravine reached Riblah ridge Ritter road rocks rode Roman round ruins Salcah Second Edition seen sheikh side sketch slope soil spot stones Sulkhad summit Suweideh Syria tell temple Third Edition towers town Trachonitis Travels in Syria tribe village visited Vols wady walls whole wild Woodcuts Zedad