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Nezib
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Nezib (nē`zĭb), in the Bible, city, SW ancient Palestine, NW of Hebron.


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Former Walthamstow RM (now Harlow GM) Chris Page, a great friend of the Derby winning handler, is heading a syndicate that has purchased a pounds 10,000 yearling filly, by Statue Of Liberty out of Nisibis, to race out of the stables of horse trainer Julia Feilden.
According to his Acts, Mari's travels take him first to Nisibis and then to such places as Erbil, Shahgird (to the east of Kerkuk), and Seleucia-Ctesiphon (to the south of Baghdad), which in due course was to become the seat of the Catholicos of the Church of the East in the Persian Empire.
58) Here recall the often-cited similarity between Heliodorus' depiction of the siege of Syene and Julian's depiction of the siege of Nisibis by the Parthian King Shapur II in 350 C.
 
 
 
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