"Irak" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the province of Irak-Ajemi, Persia, situated on the main route from Persia to Europe, and at one time the capital of the Iranian empire. Just to the north of the city rise the Elburz Mountains (l. 114), which separate the Persian Plateau from the depression ...
— Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems • Matthew Arnold
... of the Atabeks of Irak and Syria, in De Guignes, tom. i. p. 254; and the reigns of Zenghi and Noureddin in the same writer, (tom. ii. p. ii. p. 147—221,) who uses the Arabic text of Benelathir, Ben Schouna and Abulfeda; the Bibliotheque Orientale, under the articles Atabeks and Noureddin, and the ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon |
