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* UWINS. 784 UZZIAH. in Buckingham Palace Gardens he painted a fresco of the "Ladj' in Comus." Consult: Nevins, Recollections of Thomas Uunns (London, 1858) ; and Uwins, Memoir of Thomas Vwins (ib., 1858). UYEDA, oo'ya-da. A town in the Prefecture of Nagano, Japan, situated in the central part of Hondo, 21 miles southeast of Nagano (Map: Japan, F 5). It manufactures chiefly silks. Population, in 1898, 24,114. XJYXJK, oo-yook'. A noted archaeological site in Asia Minor. See Eyuk. UZ (Heb. 'us). The home of the patriarch Job (Job i. 1), as yet unidentified. Job is called one of the Sons of the East ( ver. 3 ), but this indefinite term applies to the inhabitants of the great territory lying between Syria and Meso- potamia and stretching from the Euphrates into the Arabian Desert. His friend Eliphaz (q.v.) came from Teman, doubtless in Eilom, and with this agrees the Septuagint colophon to the book, that Uz lies on the border between Edom and Arabia. The neighborhood of Edom as the abode of wise men (cf. Obadiah) makes a proper scene for the dialogue, while Uz appears in the epony- mous genealogy of the Seirites, the aboriginal inhabitants of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 20 sqq. ). On the other hand Uz appears as an Aramaic people, being a son of Aram (Gen. x. 23) or a nephew of Abraham (Gen. xxii. 21). This might place Uz far in the north, and Dolitzsch on Assyriologi- cal evidence would locate it near Palmyra. Josephus finds Uz in the neighborhood of Damas- cus (an Aramaic region), and an ancient tradi- tion places Job's home in the Hauran. If the name be associated with the Aramaic tribes, it is to be borne in mind that those tribes were mi- gratory, and geographical terms connected with them most variable. Also the biblical reference may be part of the ancient tradition concerning Job, which the author simply adopted without special intention. Consult the commentaries, especially Wctzstein's note to Delitzseh. UZ, oots, .JoHANN Peter (1720-96). A Ger- man poet, bom at Ansbach and educated at Halle, where he became the friend of Gleim and Gotz. He was in his day prominent in the group of German anacreontic poets. His works include Hieg des Liebesgottes (1753), Versiich iiber die Kunst stets frohlich zu sein (17«)0), and Poetische Schrifieii (1804). Con- sult: Feuerbaeh, Uz, ein biographischer Versuch (Leipzig, 1866), and Henneberger, Brief c ran Vz an einen Freund aus 1753-1782 (Leipzig, 1866), UZ'BEKS, A people of the Oxus basin in Russian Turkestan, scattered over a wide area from the frontiers of the Chinese Empire to the Caspian. They are in part nomadic, but have settled in great numbers in the towns and villages. By language they belong to the Turkic stock, but they have a considerable strain of Iranian blood, and possess many elements of Asiatic Aryan culture. The early home of the L^zbeks appears to have been about the northern end of the Caspian Sea, whence they spread as conquerors in the sixteenth century over Balkh, Khiva, Bokhara, Ferghana, and Khokand. UZZIAH, uz-zi'a (Heb. 'Uzziyifdh or 'Usziyya- ha, Yaliweh is my strength), or Azariah (Heb. 'XzaryCth or 'Az<tryaliu, Yahweh has helped). A king of .Judah, son of Amaziah (II. Kings XV. 1-7; II. Chron. xxvi.). The relation of the two names is imcertain. They may be prac- tically synonyms, double names occurring in the Davidic line, or possibly one is a textual cor- ruption of the other, Uzziah is assigned a reign of 52 years, the end of which is variously dated within"B,c. 740-737. The Book of Kings simply re- counts his piety, and that he was smitten with leprosy in the latter part of his reign, his son Jotham becoming regent. The Chronicler rep- resents L'zziah as a successful warrior, sub- duing the Philistines, and driving back the Arabians and Ammonites, and so extending his boundaries southward. He added to the fortifica- tions of Jerusalem, fortified the Southland, and zealously developed the royal domains. The stroke of leprosy, however, was due to the pride created by his success; he arrogated the riglit to oft'er incense in the Temple, and, when he persisted against the high priest, was stricken with the plague. L'zziah was the contemporary of the northern Jeroboam II. (q.v.) ; in their reigns the Israelitish kingdoms enjoyed political free- dom, and, from the notices of the prophets, seem to have gained power and wealth. Isaiah records that his prophetic vision came in the year Uzziah died. Consult the histories of Israel; also, G. A. Smith, Isaiah (New York, 1899).