Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . which led from Carrhae to Nicepho-rium, about 88 miles from and 40 fromDara. (Procop. \9, de Aedif. il. 2.) Itwas near this town that Gordian the Younger fell ina battle with the Persians. (Amm. Marc. /. c.) Acoin exists of the emperor Decius, bearing the legendCEn. KOA. PHCAINHCinN.,which may in all])robability be referred to this town. In the the place is subject to the government of theDux Osrhoenae {Xutit. Dign. ed. Bijcking, i. p. 400),and a bishop of Resaina is mentioned among thosewho subscribed their names at the Coun
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . which led from Carrhae to Nicepho-rium, about 88 miles from and 40 fromDara. (Procop. \9, de Aedif. il. 2.) Itwas near this town that Gordian the Younger fell ina battle with the Persians. (Amm. Marc. /. c.) Acoin exists of the emperor Decius, bearing the legendCEn. KOA. PHCAINHCinN.,which may in all])robability be referred to this town. In the the place is subject to the government of theDux Osrhoenae {Xutit. Dign. ed. Bijcking, i. p. 400),and a bishop of Resaina is mentioned among thosewho subscribed their names at the Council of Theodosius, the town appears to have beenpartially rebuilt, and to have received the title ofTiiiioDOSioPOLis. (Hierocl. p. 793.) There canbe no lioubt that it is at present represented byRas-al-Ain, a considerable entrepot of commercein the province of Diarbekr. It was nearly de-stroyed by the troops of Timur, in a. d. 1393.(Dilsrbelot, Bi^t. Orient, i. p. 140, iii. p. 112;Niebuhr, ii. p. 390.) [V.] RHINOCORURA. 709. COIN OF RIIKSAENA. RHETICO, a mountain of Germany, mentionedonly by Pomp. Mela (iii. 3), along with MountTaunus. As no particulars are stated it is impos- sible to identify it, and German writers are so dividedin their opinions that some take Rhetico to be thename of the Sicbengebirge, near Bonn, while othersidentify it with a mountain in the Tirol. [L. S.] RHIDAGUS (Curt. vi. 4. § 7), a river of Hyr-cania, which flows from the mountains N\V. to theCaspian. Alexander crossed it on his march inpursuit of Dareius. It appears to be the same asthe Choatres of Ammianus (xxiii. 24), and mayperhaps be represented by the present Adjisu. [V.] RHINOCORURA or EHINOCOLUKA (Pii/o-nipovpa, Polyb. Ptol. ; PiiOK6\ovpy, Strab.:Eth. PivoKovpalpos, PivoKovpovpiTTts), a maritimecity on the confines of Egypt and Palestine, and con-sequently reckoned sometimes to one country, some-times to the other. Strabo, going south, reckonsGaza, Raphia, Rhinocolura (xv
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