The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... tion of the Himyar line known as the illustrious dynasty of the TOBBAS , § and enter on a period of greater historical certainty . * Vide note at page 6 , Art I. No. XXXVII . of this Journal . The Himyar was , probably , the indigenous ...
... tion of the Himyar line known as the illustrious dynasty of the TOBBAS , § and enter on a period of greater historical certainty . * Vide note at page 6 , Art I. No. XXXVII . of this Journal . The Himyar was , probably , the indigenous ...
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... tion . She is held to have been no less a personage than the veritable Queen of Sheba , who visited Solomon , the son of David , a thousand years before ! Her mother is said to have been one of the genii ; but it would be unprofitable ...
... tion . She is held to have been no less a personage than the veritable Queen of Sheba , who visited Solomon , the son of David , a thousand years before ! Her mother is said to have been one of the genii ; but it would be unprofitable ...
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... tion of his tribe . Shortly after their departure , the embank- ment rent asunder , and the flood escaping with devastating fury , spread destruction in its path . In a former paper we have seen good grounds for believing that a cause ...
... tion of his tribe . Shortly after their departure , the embank- ment rent asunder , and the flood escaping with devastating fury , spread destruction in its path . In a former paper we have seen good grounds for believing that a cause ...
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... tion , rebelled against Aryât , and having slain him in single combat , succeeded to the Government . Abraha was a zealous Christian ; and the efforts of Gregentius , a Bishop deputed by the Patriarch of Alexandria to follow up the ...
... tion , rebelled against Aryât , and having slain him in single combat , succeeded to the Government . Abraha was a zealous Christian ; and the efforts of Gregentius , a Bishop deputed by the Patriarch of Alexandria to follow up the ...
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... tion of Arabs , independent alike of the Roman and of the Persian rule , carried terror and devastation throughout Syria . These were the Bani Bakr , and other central tribes , who under the guidance of the Kinda - ite chief Hârith ...
... tion of Arabs , independent alike of the Roman and of the Persian rule , carried terror and devastation throughout Syria . These were the Bani Bakr , and other central tribes , who under the guidance of the Kinda - ite chief Hârith ...
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