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- noun an ancient country in southwestern Asia to the east of the Tigris River (in what is modern Iran); was known for its warlike people
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Examples
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Goodbye, don't you cry, I'm going to Louisiana to buy a coon dog and a big fat hog and marry Susiana (ph).
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Kohistan or mountain region, Susiana (Khuzistan) whose capital was
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The design is also similar to that found on pottery made in the Susiana region of southern Iran during the fifth millennium B.C.
Abu Dhabi Discovery 2004
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This countrie as Ptolemie writeth in his fiueth booke, hath on the Northe, Media: on the West, Susiana: on the Easte, the two Carmaniæs: and on the Southe, an inshot of the
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Aethiopia with Cush, Susiana, Khuzistan or the lands about the
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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But he places the mouths of the Tigris at the entrance of Susiana; in which region, returning from that long and memorable voyage, he met the king with his fleet, as Adrian relates in his Eighth Book of the
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Vincent [324] claims that the fact of the swastika having been in use by ceramic artists in Crete and Susiana many centuries before the appearance of
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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Layard's _Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia_, vol. II, p. 214.
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela
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One thing appears now to be pretty certain -- that all Western Asia, Persia, Susiana, Media,
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
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The swastika was already a rigidly conventionalized symbol when we first know it both in the Mediterranean and in Susiana.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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