Category: History - Other
- Manus Island, page 202. No location named. Should probably be East Indies. - Gulf of Kas, page 195. Missing longitude. - Fitze-long Bay, page 187. Wrong map coordinates. - The Index lists Dharmapuri, Diggi, Kang-ping and Radhan as having Glossary entries which do not exist....
_Parthia._--About the same period, the great Parthian kingdom was founded in Central Asia and lasted till 220 A.D. The Parthian coinage is of silver (drachms and tetradrachms) a...
6. Part 6=Kars=, Armenia. 41N. 43E. Taken by Turks, 1546; fortified, 1579; conquered by Persians, 1744; by Russians, under Paskevitch, 1828; Ismael Pasha and General Williams held it uns...
4. Part 4=Balkh=, Afghan Turkestan. 37N. 67E. Zoroaster first preached his doctrine, 549 B.C.; died at Balkh. Visited by Chinese explorer, Fa Hian, 402; Hiouen Thsang, 643; by Marco Polo...
5. Part 5=Diarbekr=, Asiatic Turkey. 38N. 40E. F. on the site of ancient city of Amida. Fortified by Constantius, 340; captured by Persians, 502; by Arabs, 640; by Sultan Selim I., 1515.
3. Part 3_China._--The earliest coins of China, like those of Western Asia, date from the seventh century B.C.: these are small bronze spades and knives, copies of the actual spades, kni...
7. Part 7=Rangoon= ('the end of the war'), Burma. 17N. 96E. F. as Dagon, c. 588 B.C.; rebuilt by Alompra, 1755; captured by British, 1824, 1852. (See Kipling's 'From Sea to Sea.')
1. Part 1- Manus Island, page 202. No location named. Should probably be East Indies. - Gulf of Kas, page 195. Missing longitude. - Fitze-long Bay, page 187. Wrong map coordinates. - The...
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