Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . en have been a consideiable place, fur, havingprovoked the hostility of the Romans, it was orderedto jiay 20 talents of silver and furnish 10,000mcdiumi of wheat. Livy remarks that it stood oathe borders of Pisidia towards the shore of thePamphylian sea. There can bo no doubt thatDAnville is correct in identifying the modernTliaovs or Dams, a place of some note north-cjustof Moglah, with the ancient Tabae. Col. Leake( Minor, p. 153), relying too implicitly onStrabo, looks too far east for its site; for Hicroclcs 1082 TAB ALA. (p. 689) distinctly en
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . en have been a consideiable place, fur, havingprovoked the hostility of the Romans, it was orderedto jiay 20 talents of silver and furnish 10,000mcdiumi of wheat. Livy remarks that it stood oathe borders of Pisidia towards the shore of thePamphylian sea. There can bo no doubt thatDAnville is correct in identifying the modernTliaovs or Dams, a place of some note north-cjustof Moglah, with the ancient Tabae. Col. Leake( Minor, p. 153), relying too implicitly onStrabo, looks too far east for its site; for Hicroclcs 1082 TAB ALA. (p. 689) distinctly enumerates it ainoni; the Cariuntowns. ^ Davas is a large and well-built town, andthe capital of a considerable district; the governorsresidence stands on a height overlooking the town,and commanding a most magnificent view. (Kichter,Waltfahrten, p. 543; Franz, Fimf Inschrlfttn, p!30.) • -^ ^ It should be observed that Tliny (v. 27) mentionsanother town in Cilicia of the name of Tabae, ofvliich, however, nothing is known. [L. S.] COIN OF TABAE. TABALA {TiSaXa), a town of Lydia near theriver Hermus, is known only from coins found inthe country; but it is no doubt the same as the onementioned by Hierocles (p. 670) under the name ofGabala, which is perhaps only miswritten for is even possible that it may be the town of Tabaewhich Byz. assigns to Lydia. Some traceof the ancient place seems to be preserveil in thename of the village Tonhaili on the left bank of theHermus, between Adala and Kula. [L. S.] TABANA {TdSava, Ptol. iii. 6. § 6), a place inthe interior of the Chersonesus Taurica. [] TABASSI (TaSao-o-ot, Ptol. vii. 1. § 65), a tribeot Indians who ocupied the interior of the southernpart of Ilindostan, in the neighbourhood of thejiresent province of Mysore. Their exact positioncannot be determined, but they were not far distantfrom J/. Bettigo, the most S. of the W. derived their name from the Sanscrit Tapayn, woods. (Lassen, T
Size: 2454px × 1018px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorsmithwil, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, bookyear1854
