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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
Niebuhr preferring Kuwet
See A. Sprenger , Die alte Geographie Arabiens (Bern, 1875), pp. 135-137.GERR$S, a small province of Persia, situated between Khamseh
Hamadan
capital , Bijar, 18o m. from Hamadan
chief
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