General Biographical Dictionary Comprising A Summary Account Of The Most Distinguished Persons Of All Ages Nations And Profession

Excerpt from A General Biographical Dictionary: Comprising a Summary Account of the Most Distinguished Persons of All Ages, Nations, and Professions, Including More Than One Thousand Articles of American Biography Abaris, a Scythian philosopher, the history of whose adventures as mentioned by Herodotus and Others appear more fabulous than authentic. Abas, Schah, was seventh king of Persia, of the race of the Sophis. He was brave and active, and enlarged the boundaries of his dominions. He took conjointly with the English forces, 1622, the island of Ormus, which had been in the possession of the Portuguese 122 years. He died 1629, in the 44th year Of his reign, and obtained from his grate ful and admiring subjects the surname of great, and of restorer of Persia. He had made Ispahan his capital. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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