Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1873 edition. Estratto: ...a territory of rocks, with few springs, and almost inaccessible to the outer world. Pliny and Strabo both allude to it, the former stating that the 'Nabatrci inhabit a city called Petra, in a hollow somewhat less than two miles in ...
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Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1873 edition. Estratto: ...a territory of rocks, with few springs, and almost inaccessible to the outer world. Pliny and Strabo both allude to it, the former stating that the 'Nabatrci inhabit a city called Petra, in a hollow somewhat less than two miles in circumference, surrounded by inaccessible mountains, with a stream running through it. It is distant from the town of Gaza, on the coast, 600 miles.' Strabo speaks in similar terms regarding it, mentioning that it is fortified with a barrier of rocks, has excellent springs of water, and that outside the city the country is desert. There is little doubt that it was the Idumea of the ancients, the Edom of the Bible, where it is often also styled Mount Seir, or ' Rugged.' Edom is continually mentioned in the books of Moses, and very minute descriptions are there given of its inhabitants, their manners, territories, and power. Its first inhabitants were the Horites, ' Dwellers in caves, ' who were driven out by Esau. King David conquered Edom, and Solomon built his fleet at its port, Ezion-Geber. Subsequently the Edomites regained their independence, but were again subdued by the Maccabees. After this the Nabatheans established themselves in Edom in the third century B.C., and the country afterwards became known as Arabia Petraea. The Nabatheans were an Arab tribe descended from Nebaioth, Ishmael's eldest son, and were a commercial people, carrying the products of India and Arabia across the territory of Sinai to the Mediterranean. The caravans all centred at Petra, from whence again the trade branched out to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. Petra was a place of great strength in the time of the Romans, by whom the country was finally subdued, A.d....
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