Nebuchadnezzar, Nahr Malkfi, Nahrawan,
and Pallacopas canals, attributed to, 160
-----, the Chaldean tradition concerning a
prophecy of, 160
-----, temporary insanity of, 161
-----•, his supposed trade with China, 161
—| death and character of, 161
Nebuzar-adan, Nebuchadnezzar’s general,
158
Necho, or Nechus(see Pharaoh Necho), 153,
154, 155, 189 H
Nejran Wadi, in Nedjd-el-’Andh, the
Ararena of Strabo, 415, 416
Nelkynda, port of, 576
Neon, successor of Cheirisophus, defeated by
Pharnabazus, 239
and Xenophon defeat the Persians, 240
Neoptana, now Karroon, a fishing village,
met by Nearchus’ fleet, 350
Neoptolemus defeated by Eumenes, 381
Nera Komi, iElius Gallus at, 415
Neriglissar, or Neriglissoorus, murders and
succeeds Evil-Merodach, as king of Babylon,
162
defeated by Cyrus, and slain, 162,163
succeeded by his son Laborosoarchodus,
163
Newberrie’s voyage to Ormuz, 591, 592
| and. Fitch proceed to India overland,
and return along the Tigris, 593 _ *
Nicsea, the capital of the Turkish dominions
under Urklan, 498 _ „
Nicator, Mons (’Ain-el-Bertha), battle of
Arbela fought near, 295
Nicephorium, now Rakkah, built by Alexander,
285
Nicsea taken by ’Osman, 498 >
Nicolo di Conti’s route to India, 590
Niemaus, the wife of Ham, probably Naamah,
the sister of Tubal Cain, 19
Nigritia, the Himyarites under Abrahah
penetrate to, 80 , ’
■Nikiea reached by Alexander in advancing
to the Indus, 319
,-site of, on the Hydaspes, 324 ■
built to commemorate the victory over
Porus, 330 , ■
.___ repaired by Alexander on his return
from the Hyphasis, 334
Nile, the establishment of the shepherds on
the banks of the, 72, 73 , . ,
canal cut by Ptolemy Philadelphus
from, to the Eed Sea, 399, 400
route by the, to India, 580
Nimrud, the son of Cush, 24 (and note)
, cities, &c., built by, 24
builds the tower of Babel, 25
, Ninus, son of, reigns at Nineveh, 39 _
; probably built Telane, then called
Tunim, 39
succeeded by Ninus or Belas, 11, 39
’ or Evechius, the first of the Chaldean
kings, .55 .
, probable extent of the Assyrian empire
founded by, 65
Cushan-Bishathaim probably descended
from, 106
Nimrud, T e l l , Mr. Hector’s account of the
remains at, 137 ( n o t e ) t , . i
, or Ashur, probably Larissa, and A1
Resen of scripture, 222, 223
Tdgh, the 10,000 pass, 227
Birs, mound of, 606
Nineveh, after the dispersion, one ot the
principal settlements ot the Shemites, 3
built by Nimriid, 24, 39 _
I the place of Tobif s captivity, 141
.------ the capital of Assyria, 141
, Nabuchodonosor’s rejoicings at, 148
t taken and nearly destroyed by Nabo-
——,T a t of government removed to Babylon
fwrohmen, 1o5c3c upied by the TL ydHi ans, bv,e«sieged
and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar,
battle between the Romans, under
Heraclius, and the Persians, dear, 445
| Ninevites (Nenavi), a tribe of the Chal
Ninu™son and successor of Belas, as king of
Lydia, probable time of the birth of, 115
marries Semiramis, and dies m Bactria,
Ninos, son of Nimrud, reigns at Nineveh,
and enlarges the city, 39 I
assumes the title of Belus I I . ; invades
Armenia, and is killed, 40
I succeeded by Ha'ik, 40 I
Ninyas, son and successor of Semiramis,
organizes the kingdom, 118, 119
,___ _ the first to raise a militia corps, 119
Nissean plains, probably Khdwah and
Alishtar, 365 .
Nisbara and Nischanabe on the Tigris, 439
Nishapur, Togrul Bei crowned at, 470
Nisibin, or Antiochus of Mygdonia, An-
tiochus the Great winters at, 403 I I
,___ ; or Nisibis, and materials for I rajan s
fieet, 418 1 .. i
, besieged by the Parthians, and relieved
by Severus, 421 . _____
Nisibis, or Zobah, a part of the kingdom of
U’r, 48, 121 M m BB H
Nisroch, Sennacherib assassinated by his
sons in the temple of, 142
Nissa, treaty between the Russians and
Turks at, 503
Nitocris, queen of Egypt, 108
5 mother of Belshazzar, works ascribed
— prepares for the siege of Babylon, 163
Niul, son of Finiusa, proceeds to Egypt, and
favours the escape of the Israelites, o il
, his descendants proceed to Spain and
Ireland, 514
Noah, supposed residence of, 8, 635
, called Oannes, or Xisuthrus, 5
Muhammedan tradition of, 6, 638
___. remarkable places called after, 7, 8
, first location of the sons of, 13
I , precepts of, 14
his altar had the shape of a crescent
moon, 14
Noah allots the earth, 17, 18
, extent of the territory of his descendants,
30-39
, the sons of, at the dispersion, represented
the three divisions of mankind, 30
, grandchildren, and territory possessed
by them, 37, 38
- , tomb of, in Armenia, 40
, possibly represented by Menes or
Manes, 141, 115
Noora, a kind of cement, 627
Noorda, and Julian’s retreat, 439
Nora castle in Phrygia, successfully defended
by Eumenes, 382
Normans, the, fail in their attempt to drive
the Moors out of Spain, 465 -
, supposed descendants of the Troians,
512
Nowakot, the town of, and reunion of the
two branches of the Indus at, 369
Noyanzar, or Nemzar, the Armenian name of
Noah’s wife, 41
Nubia, the Hamites spread from, into Egypt,
48
Nu’man, a king of the Himyarites, 80
Numerals, Arabic, common use of, 564
Niir-ed-dih unites the governments of
Aleppo and Damascus, 476
— , is successful against the Crusaders,
476, 477
— succeeded by A1 Saleh Ismá’il Muham-
med, 477
Nymphseum promontory, now Mount Athos,
252
Nysa, visited by Alexander, 323 * ---- -, inhabitants of, descended from Sesostris,
323
Oannes, the sea-god of Babylonia, 15 ( n o t e )
, Xisuthrus, or Noah, 5,
Oaracta, Nearchus joined at, by Mazanes,
352
Oasis Magna, and the destruction of Cam-
byses’army, 174
Obailites in Arabia Felix, 45
Ob’oll’ah, port of, 577
Ocellis, port of, 580
Óchus, or Darius Nothus, the illegitimate
son of Artaxerxes, ascends the throne,
200 * suppresses revolts of the Egyptians,
Medes, and Lydians, 200
—— entrusts Cyrus with the government of
a part of Lesser Asia, 200
---- puts his brother Ariaspes to death,
250
, government and conquests of, 260
.y • poisoned, and is succeeded by Arses,
260
----- -, or Tedjen river, Alexander’s march to
the, 318 ^
——, probably Rás Nabend of Nearchus,
now Bay of Alsaloo, 353
Odenatus, prince of Palmyra, becomes the
declared enemy of Sapor, 425
r and the Romans defeat the Persians
under Sapor, 425
Odenatus assumes the title of king of Palmyra,
426
appointed commander of the Roman
forces, and assassinated at Heraclea, 426
Oebazus, the three sons of, executed by
Darius, 188
(Edipore, great reservoir at, 661
Oghuz Kh^n, empire of, 468
—— , from whom sprang the Hunnish tribes,
468. 469
, the descendants of Japhet, occupied
Turkistan in Abraham’s time, 469
Okair, T£rikh Ibn, khaliph, who despatched
the Moorish expedition against Spain,
457
Olfrid, an early poet, 552
Olympias, daughter of the king of Epirus
and queen of Philip, 255
divorced by Philip, 256
•—— puts Philip and Eurydice to death, 383
is put to death by Cassander, 389
Oman, remains of the Amalekites in, 51
, trade of, to China, 577
’Omar (Abu Hassan Ibn el Khatib), successor
of Abu Bekr, 454 -•---- regulated the government of Arabia,
454
, cities taken and mosques endowed by,
455 • , conquests, and death of, 455
succeeded by ’Othm&n Ibn Assan, 455
, the mosque of, and massacre of the
Muslims by the Crusaders, 475
Omayyim, the, or Omaim, lost tribe from
Ham, 45
Onesicritus, the pilot of Alexander’s fleet,
335
joins Alexander at Susa, 358
Oni, Sultan, the tract of, bestowed on Er-
toghrul, 498
Ophir, voyages of the Phoenicians to, 96
, commerce by sea established by Solomon,
122 -•---- Aurea Chersonesus considered as, 126
-—r-r, the name still preserved in the island
of Sumatra, 126
, the produce of Sumatra similar to that
brought from Ophir, 126
, the early trade with, owing to the skill
of the Phoenicians, 127, 128
Opis, the ten thousand Greeks reach, 221
, Alexander proceeds along the Tigris
to, 361
, probably near the ruins of Samarrah,
361
-----, events- connected with Alexander’s
visit to, 362, 363 • , Alexander’s route from, in returning
to Susa, 364
Ora, a town near the Indus, captured, by.
Alexander, 321
Orcheni, a branch of the Chaldeans, 54
Ordou and the 10,000 Greeks (see Cotyora),
236 .
Orenburg, trade from, to central Asia, 596
Or’fah, the land of Uz, probably in the vicinity
of, 77, 78