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 la onlj roentionod in thia pusiige, which worth Botira, u addinK to the liil of Mittiliot tcwni in the south of Fninoe. W^lckenwr (Cwff., &&, ToLi. p. 280) caDJKtnmthit it nwyt* UAtiUarti, nor AxiUe, in the dqvtmeiit of ^ufe; bnt tlllB is merelj > guns, [onDded on > resemblanro of n.n»«. [G. L.] AZA'NIA (* 'Aforla, PtoL it. 7. § 28; Peripl- Mar. Erjth. pp. 10, II, Hq.), th« modern cout of Ajan, wu inothBr nune for tlie maiilimo refrim of «*3lem Africa called Baiiiarift. which extended frooi (he pramuntory of AnmaU, lal. 1 1° N,, to that of Rhaptum, lat 3° S. Ptolemj digtinguiiha between Azania aad Barbaria, defining tho funuer as the in- terior, and (he latter aa the coast of the region which bore these namca. Azania was iohabilAl hj A race of Acthiojiiuis, who werv engaged principally in catching and taming wild elephants, or in aupp)7ing the market* of the Red Sea coast with hidea and ii«7. At the GoDthem limit of thia undefined and Bcarcdj known region was the river Rheptna, and the haven Bhaptnm (Ptol. iv. 9), which derived then- name from the Aethiopca Rhlpgii. The llare (Baptapixit niKwBi, Ptol. It. 7. § 38), akirted thia whole ifgioii. rW. B. D.} AZANU& pMiiiA.] AZARA ('A£iva>, mentioned b; Stisbo (li. p. 5ST) hi hll Account of Armenia as eilnated on the AraifSi wms read i4 Zipa: prohablj like other words occnrring in that country, the name wss spelt indillenntly. Gnskord (note ad I. e.) is inclined to think it wu > temple dedicated to the goddesa Zaretia, or the Perso-Annenian Artemis. (Cor Hesych. t. v. ; Seidell, de Diii SgriiM Sfnt.
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rE.B.J.] AZElCAtI, a city of the tribe of Jndah. {Joih. XT. 3S.) It waa vtnatcd in that inrt which was called Sephela (rendered by the LXX. t)|v wi- tirif, Ti wijiop, and rd Tair(i«i), whiih, according to Eusebioa and St. Jerome, embraced all the conn- try about EteutheropolU, to the north and west. (Reland, PalauL p. 187.) A village of thia nami existed in tbeii day between Eleiillieropolia and Aelis (lb. p. 603): and the site of Shocoh, with which it idjdned in 1 Sam. irii. I, ii still preserved in tht email mined village of StnctUeh, in the eaulh-easl of Jndaea, where the hill country declines towards the Plain of the Philistines. (Bobinion. Bib. Ra. vol. ii. PPL 343, 349.) [G. W.] AZETJIA [AmcA, p. 331, a.] AZE'TIIM ('AfifTii-oi ; Aietuii), a town AZOfiUS. lAcient aoUwr, under thia form, but it ia pivred by ill cmns, which haTe typea copied from those of Tarentnm and the legend at full AZH- TINXIN. These coina, once emmeously assigned to Aienia in Attica, an found only in the southeni part of Apniia, and hence it ia probable Ibat the "Ehetinm" of the Tab. Pent., a name certuuly corrupt, onght to be read Aietinm. If this ixo- Jecture be admitted Atetium may be placed at iiii- HgSaao, a small town abtmt I! mika S£. ef Bari, whei« the coins in question have been frequently discorered. Tho ABOETnn of Pliny (iii. T ' thoo^ placed by Lim among the " Ca Mediierranii,' in all probahililj belong to the place, and thia may be the Raman fonn ctf the j (Millingen. Kmt. de I'llalie, p. 147.) [E. E AZIRIS, or AZILIS ('ACvt, 'AC<a», Herol, St^. B., Callim.i 'Afipu, Charai, op. Sla[di. B.) 'AfuXit « 'AC"Ait ini/ii|, Ptol, iL S. § 2: Elk. 'A^iXln|<, Stri^i. B.), a diatrict, and, according to the later writers, a town, or Tillage, en the coait rt Ifarmaric*. on the E. frontier of Cyienaica, in K- Africa, iqipoaite the island of PUlea. llerodotna tells ua that it was Foloniifd by Battus and his fol- lowers two years after their first settlement in Plalea, B. c. 638. He describes it as aurronnded on both aidea by the moat beaulifnl slopes, with a river flowing throngh it, a description agrtnng, acmrding to Pacho, with the valley of the river Tenrntmh, which flows into the Golf qf Bomha, opposite to tho island of Bimha (the ancient Platea). In a second fausage, Herodotua mentions it aa adjacent io tha port of Menelaus, and at the commenceDieit of the district where silphiom growa. (Herod, iv. , 1S9; Callun. in ApolL 89 ; Pacho, Voyast dt la Marma- n^,&c.pp.53,BS.) Itappeanlobethesame place aa the Portus Azariua {i 'Afofiiol Xi>i'<ir) of Svne- sius (c. 4 : Thrige, Ra Cgrmtnt. p. 72). [P. S.] AZlRlS ('Afiptr, Ptol. T. 7. % 2), a town of Ar- menia Minor, which, if we identify with Aningaa, or Arxindjim, as Manjierl (Geojr. vol. vL pL 2. p. 308) does, must be placed to the W. of the En- AbiSlfed* iTah. Sgr. p. 18) fiaea this mfher dbetweer rrs it was famous for the worship of the goddsa Anahid, and waa decorated with many temples by Tigranen II. After the establishment of Christianity it remained au importaot place, but attained its highest disltncttnn nnder the Massulman princes of the Seljuk dynasty. (St- Martin, Mem. nr tArmMe, vol L p. 71 ; Forbieer, vol ii. p. 312; Bitter, SnihimU, vcj. x. p. 270.) rE.B.J.] AZI'ZIS, or AHl'RIS(T»b. Pent), AIXI (Pris- dan. vi p. 6BS, ed. Putsch), a town of Dacia, m the high road from Viminacinm to TiTisciun, pro- bably tho A.ilod of Ptolemy (iii. 8. S 9). It seems to be Taiiora on the reriKi. [P. S.1 AZCfRUS ('ACofx". 'Afiifiioi', Ftol. iii. 13. g 42 : Elh. 'AfuplviiT), a town in Perrhaebia in Thcssaly.