id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt mdp.39015016612064 Le Strange, G. The lands of the eastern caliphate;Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur 1905 .txt text/plain 193277 13220 85 The great lowland province, which the Greeks called Mesopotamia, is the gift of its two rivers the Euphrates and the Tigris ; Also on the east bank, but lying three leagues above Dayr-alÂķal, was the small town of As-Sîb, for distinction called Sîb of country from which the Great Zâb flows is that known as Mushtakahar and Bâbghîsh according to Yâķût, and its waters at first Muķaddasî describes Thamânîn in the 4th (10th) century as a fairsized city, and it lay one march to the north of Al-Hasanîyah; own small river, is described by Ibn Hawķal as already a town of places lay near the bank of a great loop canal, called the Nahr describes it as a great place, well built, with fine markets, surrounded by abundantly watered gardens; and the lake (he adds) cities ; Yâķût, who gives both names, says little of the town, confining himself to a description of the sculptures and ruins on the ./cache/mdp.39015016612064.pdf ./txt/mdp.39015016612064.txt