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See also: ancient city of See also: Arabia, on the west See also: side of the Persian Gulf, described by See also: Strabo (Bk. xvi.) as inhabited by Chaldean exiles from See also: Babylon, who built their houses of See also: salt and repaired them by the application of salt See also: water
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See also: Pliny (His'
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Nat. vi
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32) says it was 5 M. in circumference with towers built of square blocks of salt
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Various identifications of the site have been attempted, J
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P
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B
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D'See also: Anville choosing El Katif, C
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Niebuhr preferring See also: Kuwet and C
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See also: Forster suggesting the ruins at the See also: head of the See also: bay behind the islands of Bahrein
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See A
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See also: Sprenger, Die alte Geographie Arabiens (See also: Bern, 1875), pp
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135-137 . GERR$S, a small province ofSee also: Persia, situated between See also: Khamseh and Azerbaijan in the N., See also: Kurdistan in the W. and See also: Hamadan in 'the S
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Its population is estimated at 80,000, and its capital, Bijar, 18o m. from Hamadan, has a population ofabout 4000 and See also: post and telegraph offices
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The province is See also: fief of the chief of the Gerrfls Kurds, pays a yearly revenue of about £3000, and supplies a See also: battalion of See also: infantry (the 34th) to the army
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