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OSROENE , or OsRHOENE, a See also:district of See also:north-western See also:Mesopotamia, in 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 See also:country on the upper Bilechas (Belichus; mod. Nahr Belik, Bilikh), the tributary of the See also:Euphrates, with its See also:capital at See also:Edessa (q.v.), founded by 'Seleucus I. About 130 B.C. Edessa was occupied by a nomadic Arabic tribe, the Orrhoei (Plin. v. 85; vi. 25, 117, 129), who founded a small See also:state ruled by their chieftains with the See also:title of See also:kings. After them the district was called Orrhoene (thus in the See also:inscriptions, in See also:Pliny and Dio See also:Cassius), which occasionally has been changed into Osroene, in assimilation to the See also:Parthian name See also:Osroes or See also:Chosroes (Khosrau). The founder of the See also:dynasty is therefore called Osroes by Procop. See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell Pers. i. 17; but Orhai or Urhai, son of Hewya (i.e. " the
i Another supposed old See also:form of the name is Orfraie "; but that is said by M. See also:Rolland (Faune popul. See also:France, ii. p. 9, See also:note), quoting M. Suchier (Zeitschr. rom. Philol. i. p. 432), to arise from a mingling of two wholly different See also:sources: (i) Oripelargus, Oriperagus, Orprais and (2) Ossifraga. " Orfraie " again is occasion-ally interchanged with Effraie (which, through such dialectical forms as Fresaze, Fressaia, is said to come from the Latin praesaga), the See also:ordinary See also:French name for the See also:barn-See also:owl, Aluco flammeus (see Own). According to See also:Skeat's See also:Dictionary (i. p. 408), Asprey " is the See also:oldest See also:English form; but " See also:Osprey " is given by See also:Cotgrave, and is found as See also:early as the 15th See also:century.
2 Two See also:good examples of the different localities chosen by this See also:bird for its See also:nest are illustrated in Ootheca Wolleyana, pls. B. & H.
It
snake "), in the See also:chronicle of See also:Dionysius of. Tellmahre; he is no See also:historical See also:personality, but the eponym of the tribe. In the Syrian See also:Doctrine of Addai (ed. Philipps 1876, p. 46) he is called Arjaw, i.e. " the See also:lion." The kings soon became dependants of the Parthians; their names are mostly Arabic (Bekr, See also:Abgar, Ma'nu), but among them occur some Iranian (Parthian) names, as See also:Pacorus and Phratamaspates. Under See also:Tigranes of See also:Armenia they became his vassals, and after the victories of See also:Lucullus and See also:Pompey, vassals of the See also:Romans. Their names occur in all See also:wars between Romans and Parthians, when they generally inclined to the Parthian See also:side, e.g. in the wars of See also:Crassus and See also:Trajan. Trajan deposed the dynasty, but See also:Hadrian restored it. The kings generally used See also:Greek inscriptions on their coins, but when they sided with the Parthians, as in the See also:war of See also:Marcus Aurelius and Verna (A.D. 161–165), an Aramaic See also:legend appears instead. See also:Hellenism soon disappeared and the See also:Arabs adopted the See also:language and See also:civilization of the Aramaeans. This development was hastened by the introduction of See also:Christianity, which is said to have been brought here by the apostle Judas, the See also:brother of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James, whose See also:tomb was shown in Edessa. In 190 and 201 we hear of See also:Christian churches in Edessa. 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 Abgar IX. (or VIII.) (i79–214) himself became a Christian and abolished the See also:pagan cults, especially the rite of castration in the service of See also:Atargatis, which was now punished by the loss of the hands (see Bardesanes, " See also:Book of the See also:Laws of Countries," in See also:Cureton, Spicilegium Syriacum, p. 31). His See also:conversion has by the legend been transferred to his ancestor Abgar V. in the 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 of See also:Christ himself, with whom he is said to have exchanged letters and who sent him his miraculous See also:image, which afterwards was fixed over the See also:principal See also:gate of the See also:city (see ABGAR; See also:Lipsius, See also:Die edessenische Abgarsage (188o); Dobschiitz, Christusbilder (1896) ). Edessa now became the principal seat of Aramaic-Christian (See also:Syriac) language and literature; the See also:literary See also:dialect of Syriac is the dialect of Edessa.
See also:Caracalla in 216 abolished the See also:kingdom of Osroene (Dio See also:Cass. 77, 12. 14) and Edessa became a See also:Roman See also:colony. The See also:list of the kings of Osroene is preserved in the Syrian chronicle of Dionysius of Tellmahre, which is checked by the coins and the data of the Greek and Roman authors; it has been reconstructed by A. v. See also:Gutschmid, " Untersuchungen uber die Geschichte See also:des Konigreichs Osroene," in Memoires de l'Acad. de St Petersbourg, t. See also:xxxv. (1887). Edessa remained Roman till it was taken by Chosroes II. in 6o8; but in 625 See also:Heraclius conquered it again. In 638 it was taken by the Arabs. (ED.
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