HILLAH  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey, in the pashalik of See also:

• BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad, 6o m . S. of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Bagdad, in 32° 28' 35" N., 44 48' 401" E., formerly the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of a sanjak and the See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of a mutasserif, who in 1893 was transferred to See also:

• DIWANIEH

Diwanieh . It is situated on both See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the See also:

• EUPHRATES (Babylon. Purattu, Heb. Perath, Arab. Frdt or Furst, Old Pers. Ufratu, Gr. Eb4 parrls)

Euphrates, the two parts of the town being connected by a floating See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge, 450 ft. in length, in the midst of a very fertile See also:

• DISTRICT

district . The estimated See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population, which includes a large number of See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews, varies from 6000 to 12,000 . The town has suffered much from the periodical breaking of the Hindieh See also:

• DAM

dam and the consequent deflection of the See also:

• WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters of the Euphrates to the westward, as a result of which at times the Euphrates at this point has been entirely dry . This deflection of See also:

• WATER

water has also seriously interfered with the See also:

• PALM (Lat. palma, Gr. iraX6.jn )
• PALM, JOHANN PHILIPP (1768-1806)

palm groves, the cultivation of which constitutes a large See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry of the surrounding See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country along the See also:

• RIVER

river . The bazaars of Hillah are relatively large and well supplied . Many of the houses in the town are built of See also:

• BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick, not a few bearing an inscription of See also:

• NEBUCHADREZZAR, or NEBUCHADNEZZAR

Nebuchadrezzar, obtained from the ruins of See also:

• BABYLON (mod. Hillah)

Babylon, which See also:

• LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)
• LIE, MARIUS SOPHUS (1842–1899)

lie less than an See also:

• HOUR

hour away to the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north .