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ASIR, a district in western Arabia, lying between 1 7° 30' and 21° N., and 40° 30' and 43° E.; bounded N. by Hcjaz, E. by Nejd, S. by Yemen and \V. by the Red Sea. Like Yemen, it consists of a lowland zone some 20 or 30 m. in width along the coast, and of a mo ...

ASOR (Hebr. for " ten "), an instrument " of ten strings " mentioned in the Bible, about which authors are not agreed. The word occurs only three times in the Bible, and has not been traced elsewhere. In Psalm xxxiii. 2 the reference is to " kinnor, nebel and

ASPIROZ, MANUEL DE (1836-1005), Mexican statesman and diplomatist, was born at Puebla, and educated at the university of Mexico, where he took his degree in "i&sS- He took part in the war against the emperor Maximilian, and in 1867, on the establishment of the

... fic accuracy,4 were made available in fixing the amount of lunar acceleration. Nasir ud-din (1201-1274) drew up the Ilkhanic Tables, and determined the constant of precession at 51". He directed an observatory established by Hulagu Khan (d. 1265) at Maraga in ...

... a oriental is, published at Heidelberg in 1658, and another in the iSth, in M. Casiri's BMiotheca ArabUo-Hispanua (2 vols., Madrid, 1 760-1 770). Of the artistic treasures with which the Escorial was gradually enriched, it is sufficient to mention the frescoes ...

... sion in that language is the one made of the thirteen books of the Elements by Nasir Al-Din AlTusI (ijth century), which appeared at Rome in 1594. The first printed edition of Euclid was a translation of the fifteen books of the Elements from the Arabic, made, ...

... he supremacy of the Wahhabi empire was to be renewed; El Hasa, Harik, Kasim and Asir returned to their allegiance, but over Oman and Yemen Fesal never re-established his dominion, and the Bahrein sheiks with British support kept their independence. A rival sta ...

... peninsula, now crowned by Fort Frederick, a temple dedicated to Konatha, or Konasir, named the " temple of a thousand columns." The building was desecrated and destroyed in 1622, when the town was taken by the Portuguese, who made use of the materials for the ...