A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand.
- Louis Moréri
- Date:
- 1705
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A supplement to The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary: being a curious miscellany of sacred and profane history / Collected especially out of Lewis Morery, D. D., his 8th ed. cor. and enl. by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. By Jer. Collier. Together with a continuation from the year 1688, to this time, by another hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ABA ABB In the 666th Year of the Hegira, i. e. in the Year 1267, according to the Chriftian Computation, Borak- Oglan, who was likewife of the Family of Giagathai- - han^ lent (gne Mji(]oud-Beg with the Character of an Ambuffador xcfjjlbachjfp Court',’juhder'ptctcncc:t)f OP” remony and CoInpUiycnt; tho’nis Dcngn wf' to get Intc 11 ^gcncc, a nil leai n wliIHif l as the niolt practica¬ ble Miy$ch tobrejjpc in upon the Country, ^ JMajjgud-Beg was dilcover’d in his* Defigns but talung his'LeaVe fooner than was expected, and Travelling with extraor¬ dinary fpeed, lie made his Elcape. Borah, Ins Matter, being fully inform’d by him-of vVhat was, ncccflary, prepar’d immediately tor the Expedition. He let for¬ ward with an Hundred thoufand Horfc in the Year of the Hegira 667, and palled the Raver Amofi or Gflfoh.^ He immediately made himfelf Maftcr of all tljt Province of Khorafan, .where he met cwitlv but a (leader Jf'efi- ltincc; and thus he prefled forward as tar as Adherbi- gfitn, where Abac ha had polled his main Body. The Man-C^tiard of the Tartars were qdickly beaten oft, ; and .tpe, ip’aip Body; o|' ftrc Two Sul tins cam* CipjtQ pch- other In the Neighbourhood of the T0W11 Herat the Year following. Here the Battel was fought? the For¬ tune of which being a great while doubtful, fell at laft on Abaehas~{idc, vvjio .made lmnlclf alter of the Field, utiid. took all the Enemy’s Bagage. Tins' Defeat forc’d Dor.fi to repais the Amait, and Abie ha leaving a lu Hie lent Number of Troops. Vvath his Brother Benfchin to lecure the Country of Khorafan, marched back into the Province of Adherbigian. This Year he fent Alangou Timur, another of lih Bro¬ thers, into Syria, to make ReprifaIs upon the Princes of Egypt and Syria. To underliehd the Grounds of this VVjar, we ninil oblervc, That after the Death of .Maid Saleh, the laft Monarch of Egypt of the Hotil'e of S. a fa- din, Codoxz, one ot the Mammalucks, or Slaves of the Prince, deceased, leiz’d the Crown, and got himlelf Pro¬ claim’d King of Egypt and Syria, taking the Title of ' Afialeck Modhaffer upon, him. Holagou, Emperor of the Moguls, and Father to Abacha, after having made him- felf Mafter of Bdgd'at, detach’d Kclt-Boga, one of his Generals, againft him r But this Bodv vvas fo unfortu¬ nate as to be entirely defeated by Sultan Modhaffir, wfipfe Succcls was of no long continuance ; for Bon- tjoefar, another Slave of the late King of 'Egypt above- jnentioped, ,plurp’d upon tlie UTurper, defeated hint, ‘and gralp’d (He Government. This new Prince, belorc he W'buld venture to come to Blows with the Moguls, Thought it advifcable to examine their Force ; talcing therefore Three or Four of his Courtiers with him, he 1’4.intognttq over all the Country belonging to the ■Moguls on tills fide the Euphrates: And upon his Return into Egypt, he difpatched a Courier to Abacha, who had 'lately Tuccecded to his Father, to let him know, That Tftvifg lately made a Progrclsthrough that PrinccsDo¬ minions for hjs piyerfloff, and happening to be out of ■)CAui at a certain Iim, lie left a Ring of Value there in ‘Pawn for the Reckoning, which he defir’d Abacha woiitd pleak to return him : To this Abacha'gaved ve¬ ry, civil /piivver, lent him his Ring by an Exprefs, who ‘likcw jie carry’d him a very obliging Letter. ,.'r Things going 'on thus l’moothly between thefe Two Pri pees, Bondocdar died, and liis Son Maid Saleh Reign¬ ing but Two Years after him, was lucccedcd by Seifekdin Kclaoun, firnamed Alfi. In this Sultan's Reign, Abacha lent his Brother Mangou Timur with a numerous Army into Syria, in the Year of the Hegira 669 ; but he had no better luck than his father; tor the Forces of the Tartars were entirely routed by the Egyptians, and their (jeneral kill’d. , A Soon after this Dilgrace, the; Court of Abacha was ve¬ ry' much embroil’d : For 011c Magdelmolk Jezdi having, iifCon'ccTt with lomc of the great Men done very i’ll .Offices to Scham-Seddin, the Firft Minuter, by mi ire¬ porting him to his Matter ; which Milieprcientation Being in lome ltieafurc believ’d, Scham-Seddin declin’d .Vcry'inuch in liis Intercft and Authority. Affairs be¬ ing in this. Pofturc, Abacha died at Hamadan of a fort of ludden Death, in the Year of the Mahometan Com¬ mutation 680, and ’twas thought his End was haftened :% a Draught ordered him by Scham-Seddin. \ffi Abacha, according to fome Authors, was a Chriftian; which Conjecture looks probable, bccaufehe kept Eafier with the Chriftians at Hamadan a little before his Death. The Dominions 'of-this Prince were very large, being 'Matter of the Provinces following, (viz.-.) Khorafan, the Capital of which was then Nifchabur ; the Per fun t Ira.pue, whole Capital was IJpahan ■ the Arabian ©r Ba¬ bylonian Iraque, which had Bagdat for its Capital • the Adherbigian or Media, the Metropolis of which was ■ Tauris ;°the:f rovince op Ears, or Perfu properly' lpcak- ihg, the pnhcipabTow’ii of which Province was Schirazfy * which totnbluppdle to have bccii the arfeient Perfepolis-fi Khuz.ifian, ot Sufi ana, which had Schafer, or Old' Shujban, ' for itk’CapiiS!; the Province of Biarbekir, or Mefipota*- mia, which had its Metropolis Muffal, or Aloftl ■ the Province of Sum, or AfiatheLefs, which had Coma, or kbniufe, for ilk principal’ Tovvn. Abacha Reign’d Seven¬ teen Years, and was lucccedcd by his Brother Akmed- khan. * D'Herbelot Bibliothcque Orientale. A' B A*Tl TSy a 'town,or Egypt, fltuate on the Eaft fide of tfrfc Rivdi Bubajiiacam ( which was a Branch of th’e AifcJ It vVas enlarg’d and Walld By S'dtates: Af¬ terwards being very muchfOrtify’d, irW-as eaffd Pytbo¬ ra-, and laftly, was known by the Name of Pclufium. It was offe'ot the ftroiigeft Towns in Egypt in the Pro¬ phet Aedid s time. * Jofphiescontra Appion,lib. I. Mar-. ' jhdxn (fadon. Chnof. Sec Pdkfibfo. * A B A R IS, a Scythian. ’I’is pretended that he made liis way through the Air with extraordinary ipeed, by vertue of an Arrow given him by Apollo: This Arrow, ft teems'; had formerly lerv’d Apollo to kill the Cyclops, who made Jupiter's Thunder-bolts. : Apollo, after the Slaughter of the Cyclops, hid his Arrow under a Moun¬ tain in a Country'ot the Hyperboreans', and fecovtr’d it in a lurprizing manner ; for the Winds brought it to his Hands after Jupiter was reconcil’d to him. ’ The time • when Abaris liv’d is uncertain ; his Embafly to Athens is, by fome, plac’d under the Twenty firft OJympiadc : Pindar makes him contemporary with Crafts; and Eu- f bitis brings him to the Second Year of the Eighty fc- cond Olympiade ; but Volefins teems to prefer ihc Opi¬ nion of Porphyry and Jamblicns, according to which Aborts flourith’d m the Second Year of the Fifty fourth Olympiade, and was< contemporary with Pythagoras. According to this Acdofht-, the Story of his making the Trojan Palladium out of Pdopss Bones, muft be an’Un- chronological Fiction. St. Gregory Nadanzxn mentions Abacus i.n.This Epitaph upon St.Baz.il. A Herod, lib. 4. cap. 36, Hygin. A fir. Poet. lib. 2. cap. 15. Harpopratian. Eu- Jcb. Chron, Bade Diction. Hi.fi r. See Moncry, Vol. 1. A B A TO S, a Place lying beyond Egypt and Ethio¬ pia nehr the River Stix: It had its Name from the Diffi¬ culty, of coming at it. * Hoffman. ABBAS, Son of AbdohnothUb, and Unde to Ma¬ homet, was at tuft lb little iatisfy’d with his Nephew’s Character, that lie-levy d Troops againft him, looking upon him as no better than an Impo/lor and Traytor fo liis Country ; but, being defeated in the Field, and ta- keaPrilorfer at the Battel of Bedr, in the Second Year idf the Hegira, lie was. oblig’d to a very hjgh Raiitom which made him coinplain to ‘Alahbmet, and cxpoftiilate with him, whtther it was a decent thing for him to reduce his Uncle to extreme Poverty, and force him to dilgrace his Family by. begging from Door tot Door? Mahomet being inform’d, that Abbas had a coritiderable Fon'd which lay conceal’d, ask’d him, What was become of his Bags of Gold which flays he) ye gave your Afother to keep for ye when ye left Meccha ? Abbas being ftrangelv lurpriz’d at Mahomet’s being acquainted with fo great a Secret as this,' began to have a better Opinion of him, and promis’d him, not only to pay his Ranfom, but fo ’ become his Prdlelyte: Nay, he was to civil as to tell him fome few Years after, that God had reftord 'him his Money he had paid his Nephew a hundred times over, which he look’d upon as a Reward for turning Mufulman. After this, Abbas was one- of Mahomet's General Of¬ ficers, and fought by his tide at the Bxrttcl of llonam, in the Eighth Year of ihc Hcgira. Tins Battel was'fought againft the Thakefites after the taking. of 'Meccha : The Conteft was very obftinate, and Mahomet was Id hard prefs’d, that, in all probability, he had been left dead upon the Place, it Abbas, who had a very ftrong Voice, had not harangu’d the Troops that were running away’ and brought them on to the Charge by the force of his Rhetorics. And Uovv, having new Courage hollow’d into their Ears, they diiengag’df heir pretended Prophet, who was juft falling into the Enemy’s Hand : Bui Fight¬ ing was not Abbas's only Talent; he was over and above this Quality a- .‘great Doctor, and much admir’d for his Skill in Religion ; the Learning of the -Mahome¬ tans](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30457750_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
