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GERRHA (Arab. al-Jar'a)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 903 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GERRHA (Arab. al-Jar'a) , an ancient city of Arabia, on the west side of the Persian Gulf, described by Strabo (Bk. xvi.) as inhabited by Chaldean exiles from Babylon, who built their houses of salt and repaired them by the application of salt water. Pliny (His'. Nat. vi. 32) says it was 5 M. in circumference with towers built of square blocks of salt. Various identifications of the site have been attempted, J. P. B. D'
Anville
  choosing El Katif, C.
Niebuhr
  preferring
Kuwet
  and C. Forster suggesting the ruins at the head of the bay behind the islands of Bahrein.
See A.
Sprenger
 , Die alte Geographie Arabiens (Bern, 1875), pp. 135-137.
GERR$S, a small province of Persia, situated between
Khamseh
  and Azerbaijan in the N., Kurdistan in the W. and
Hamadan
  in 'the S. Its population is estimated at 80,000, and its
capital
 , Bijar, 18o m. from
Hamadan
 , has a population ofabout 4000 and post and telegraph offices. The province is fief of the
chief
  of the Gerrfls Kurds, pays a yearly revenue of about 3000, and supplies a battalion of infantry (the 34th) to the army.


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