MERGE  , the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general name (as See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island of Meroe) for the region bounded on three sides by the See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile (from See also:

• ATBARA (Bahr-el-Aswad, or Black River)

Atbara to See also:

• KHARTUM

Khartum), the Atbara, and the See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

Blue Nile; and the See also:

• SPECIAL

special name of an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

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

city on the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east See also:

• BANK

bank of the Nile, 877 M. from See also:

• WADI

Wadi See also:

• HAIFA

Haifa by See also:

• RIVER

river, and 554 by the route across the See also:

• DESERT

desert, near the site of which is a See also:

• GROUP

group of villages called Bakarawiya . The site of the city is marked by over two See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred pyramids in three See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups, of which many are in ruinous See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition . After these ruins had been described by several travellers, among whom F . Cailliaud (Voyage a Meroe, See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1826-1828) deserves special mention, some excavations were executed; on a small See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale in 1834 by G . Ferlini (Cenno sugli scavi a perati nella See also:

• NUBIA

Nubia e catalego degli oggetti ritrovati, See also:

• BOLOGNA
• BOLOGNA, GIOVANNI DA (1524–1608)

Bologna, 1837), who discovered (or professed to discover) various antiquities, chiefly in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

• JEWELRY (O. Fr. jouel, Fr. joyau, perhaps from joie, joy; Lat. gaudium; retranslated into Low Lat. jocale, a toy, from jocus, by misapprehension of the origin of the word)

jewelry,- now in the museums of See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin and See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich . The ruins were examined in 1844 by C . R . See also:

• LEPSIUS, KARL RICHARD (1810–1884)

Lepsius, who brought but none of them reached more than the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty or twenty-five; this was the age of the " rills faineants." Henceforth the real See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign was the See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor of the See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace . The mayors of the palace belonging to the Carolingian See also:

• FAMILY

family were able to keep the See also:

• THRONE

throne vacant for See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long periods of See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and finally, in 751 the mayor See also:

• PIPPIN, or PEPIN

Pippin, with the consent of the See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

pope See also:

• ZACHARIAS, ST

Zacharias, sent See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King Childeric III. to the monastery of St Omer, and shut up his See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young son See also:

• THIERRY

Thierry in that of St Wandrille . The Merovingian See also:

• RACE

race thus came to an end in the See also:

• CLOISTER (Lat. claustrum; Fr. cloitre; Ital. chiostro; Span. claustro; Ger. Kloster)

cloister . Merovingian See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

Legend.—It has long been conceded that the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• NATIONAL

national epics of the 1 ith and 12th centuries must have been founded on a great fund of popular See also:

• POETRY

poetry, and that many of the episodes of the chansons de geste refer to See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical events anterior .to the Carolingian See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, Floovant is obviously connected with the GestaDagoberti, and there are traces of the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of popular songs on the Frankish heroes in See also:

• GREGORY
• GREGORY (Gregorius)
• GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
• GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
• GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
• GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
• GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)

Gregory of See also:

• TOURS

Tours and other chroniclers . See G .

Kurth, Hist. poet. See also:

• DES

des Merovingiens (Paris, See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels and See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1893) ; A . See also:

• DARMESTETER, JAMES (1849-1894)

Darmesteter, De Floovante vetustiore allico poemate (Paris, 1877); Floovant (Paris, 1859); ed . MM . F . uessard and H . Michelant; P . Rajna, , Delle Origin dell' epopea francese (See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence, 1884), with which cf . G . Paris in Romania, xiii . 602 seq . ; F . Settegast, Quellenstudien zur gallo-romanischen Epik (Leipzig, 1904) ; C .

Voretzsch, Epische Studien (See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle, 1900); H . Groeber, Grundriss d. See also:

• ROMAN

roman . Phil . (Bd . II., See also:

• ABT, FRANZ (1819-1885)

abt. i. pp . 447 seq.), (C .