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ELNE , a See also:town of See also:south-western See also:France in the See also:department of See also:Pyrenees-Orientales, to m. S.S.E. of See also:Perpignan by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 3026. The See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill on which it stands, once washed by the See also:sea, which is now over 3 M. distant, commands a See also:fine view over the See also:plain of See also:Roussillon. From the 6tn See also:century till 1602 the town was the seat of a bishopric, which was transferred to Perpignan. The See also:cathedral of St Eulalie, a Romanesque See also:building completed about the beginning of the 12th century, has a beautiful See also:cloister in the same See also:style, with interesting sculptures and three See also:early See also:Christian sarcophagi. Remains of the See also:ancient ramparts flanked by towers are still to be seen. See also:Silk-See also:worm cultivation is carried on. Elne, the ancient Illiberis, was named See also:Helena by the See also:emperor See also:Constantine in memory of his See also:mother. See also:Hannibal encamped under its walls on his See also:march to See also:Rome in 218 B.C. The emperor See also:Constans was assassinated there in A.D. 350. The town several times sustained See also:siege and See also:capture between its occupation by the See also:Moors in the 8th century and its See also:capitulation in 1641 to the troops of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIII.
EL OBEID, See also:chief town of the mudiria (See also:province) of See also:Kordofan, Anglo-See also:Egyptian See also:Sudan, and 230 M. S.W. by S. of See also:Khartum in
a See also:direct See also:line. Pop. (1905) about 10,000. It is situated about 2000 ft. above the sea, at the See also:northern See also:foot of See also:Jebel Kordofan, in 13° 11' N. and 300 14' E. It is an important See also:trade centre, the chief articles of See also:commerce being See also:- GUM (Fr. gomme, Lat. gommi, Gr. Kµµ1, possibly a Coptic word; distinguish " gum," the fleshy covering of the base of a tooth, in O. Eng. gbma, palate, cf. Ger. Gaumen, roof of the mouth; the ultimate origin is probably the root gha, to open wide, seen in
gum, See also:ivory, See also:cattle and See also:ostrich feathers. A considerable See also:part of the trade of See also:Darfur with See also:Egypt passes through El Obeid.
El Obeid, which appears to be a See also:place of considerable antiquity and the ancient See also:capital of the See also:country, was garrisoned by the Egyptians on their See also:conquest of Kordofan in 1821. In See also:September 1882 the town was assaulted by the troops of the See also:mandi, who, being repulsed, laid siege to the place, which capitulated on the 17th of See also:January 1883. During the Mandia the See also:city was destroyed and deserted, and when Kordofan passed, in 1899, into the See also:possession of the Anglo-Egyptian authorities nothing was See also:left of El Obeid but a part of the old See also:government offices. A new town was laid out in squares, the mudiria repaired and See also:barracks built.
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