Serbonian Bog (Greek: Σιρβωνίδος λίμνη, romanized: Sirbōnidos limnē, Latin: Sirbonis Lacus, Arabic: مستنقع سربون, romanized: Mustanqaʿ Sirbūn) was an...
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at Ras Kouroun, a small mountain near the marshy Lake Bardawil, the "Serbonian Bog" of Herodotus, where Zeus' ancient opponent Typhon was "said to be hidden"...
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avenue" was little more than a wide dirt road ridiculed as "The Great Serbonian Bog", he planted it with rows of fast-growing Lombardy poplars.[citation...
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small mountain and a former town near the marshy Lake Bardawil, the "Serbonian Bog" of Herodotus, where Zeus' ancient opponent Typhon was "said to be hidden"...
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south, Babylonia."; Chapter 14: "After this, at the point where the Serbonian Bog becomes visible, Idumea and Palaestina begin. This lake, which some...
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Western tip of Lake Bardawil." It may be what Herodotus described as the Serbonian Bog, between Damietta and Mount Casius, in his Histories of c. 430BCE. The...
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description of the (non-convex) Serbonian Bog in Paradise Lost (Book II, lines 592–594): A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius...
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whose concavity is compared to the Serbonian Bog in Book II, lines 592–594: A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old...
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at 2nd Street. The damp earned the street the nickname of the "Great Serbonian Bog." (This marshy area was filled in and dried beginning in 1816.) In the...
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ˈsaɪnəs/ "Bay of Simois" Simois Colles Sirbonis Palus The army-swallowing Serbonian Bog near Mt Casius in Egypt — Mare Sirenum /ˈmɛəriː saɪˈriːnəm/ "Sea of...
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