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BARRY
, an See also:urban See also:district and seaport of See also:Glamorganshire, See also:Wales, on the See also:Bristol Channel, 153 M. by See also:rail from See also:London and 8 in
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S.W. from See also:Cardiff
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Its station is a See also:terminus on the Barry• railway, which starts at Hafod in the See also:Rhondda Valley, where it joins the Taff Vale railway, having also junctions with the same See also:line fer See also:Aberdare and Merthyr at Treforest, and for Cardiff and See also:Penarth at Cogan, and with the See also:Great Western See also:main line at Peterstone and St Fagans
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A See also:branch from the main line at Tyn-y-caeau connects with the See also:Rhymney railway, the London, & See also:North-Western railway, and the See also:Brecon & Merthyr railway
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The Vale of Glamorgan railway (which is worked by
the Barry See also:company and has a junction with the Great Western railway at See also:Bridgend) affords a See also:direct route to Barry from the Llynvi, Ogmore and Garw coalfields
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The urban district of Barry, with a See also:population in 1901 of 27,030, comprises the ecclesiastical parishes of Barry, Cadoxton, Merthyr-Dovan, and a portion of See also:Sully in which is included Barry See also:Island (194 acres), now, however, joined to the mainland
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The See also:total population of this See also:area in 1881 was only about 500, that of Barry See also:village alone being only 85
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A small See also:brook named Barri runs here into the See also:sea, whence the See also:place was formerly known in Welsh as Aber-Barri, but the name of both the See also:river and the island is supposed to be derived from See also:Baruch,. a Welsh See also:saint of the 7th See also:century, who had a See also:cell on the island
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His See also:chapel (which still existed in See also:Leland's See also:time) was a place of See also:pilgrimage in the See also:middle ages
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According to Giraldus, his own See also:family derived its name de Barri from the island which they once owned: One of the followers of Fitzhamon settled at Barry about the end of the 11th century, See also:building there a See also:castle of which only a gateway remains
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Besides the small old See also:parish churches of Merthyr-Dovan and Cadoxton, and the rebuilt parish See also:
There are also a See also:Roman See also:Catholic church, and • one for See also:German and Scandinavian See also:seamen
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The other public buildings are a See also:county intermediate school for 250 boys and girls, built in 1896, a See also:free library (opened in 1892) with four branch See also:reading-rooms, a seamen's See also:institute, the Barry See also:market, built in 1890 at a; cost of £3500 (but now used as a See also:concert-See also:
The total See also:tonnage of the exports in 1906 was 9,757,380 (all of which, except 26,491 tans, was coal), and of the imports 506,103 tons
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See also:BAR-SALIM, See also:JACOB or See also:DIONYSIUS,1 the best-known and most voluminous writer in the Syrian Jacobite church of the 12th century, was, like Bar-Hebraeus, a native of See also:Malatia on the Upper See also:Euphrates
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In .1154 he was created See also:bishop of See also:Mar'ash by the See also:patriarch See also:Athanasius VIII.; a year later the See also:diocese of Mabbog was added to his . See also:charge
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In 1166 See also:Michael I., the successor of Athanasius, transferred him to the See also:metropolitan see of Amid in See also:Mesopotamia, and there he remained till his See also:death in 1171
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A See also:long See also:account of his writings, with copious extracts from some of them, has been given by See also:Assemani (Bibl
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Orient. ii. pp
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156-2r r); and W
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See also:Wright (See also:Syriac Literature, pp
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246-250) has added further particulars as to the See also:MSS. in which they are contained
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Probably the most important are his exhaustive commentaries on the See also:text of the Old and New Testaments, in which he has skilfully interwoven and summarized the interpretations of previous writers such as Ephrem, See also:Chrysostom, See also:Cyril, See also:Moses Bar-Kepha and See also: But the systematic editing of his Jacob was' his baptismal name; Dionysius he assumed when consecrated to the bishopric.works was only begun in 1903 with H . Labourt's edition and See also:translation of his Exposition of the See also:Liturgy (See also:Paris) . His commentaries on the Gospels have been edited and translated by J . Sedlacek and J . B . See also:Chabot (Fast . I., Paris, 2906), and the Syriac text of the treatise against the Jews has been edited by J. de Zwaan (See also:Leiden, 1906) . Bar-*See also:alibi was undoubtedly an able theologian; his vigour combined with terseness in See also:argument is well seen, for instance, in the See also:introductory sections of his commentary on St Matthew . Of his originality it is hard to See also:judge, as he does not usually indicate in detail the See also:sources of his arguments and interpretations . He does not, however, claim for himself to be more than a compiler, at least in his commentaries . His Syriac See also:style is good, considering the lateness of the See also:period at which he wrote . (N .
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