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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Tirhut

Britannica 11th

TIRHUT, or TIRHOOT, the historic name of a tract in northern India, being that portion of Behar which lies north of the Ganges. It corresponds roughly with the ancient Hindu kingdom of Mithila (q.v.). Down to 1873 it formed a single district, which was then di ...

Vol. 26, pp. 1010-1010 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Tirah

Britannica 11th

TIRAH, a mountainous tract of country on the Peshawar border of the North-west Province of India. It lies between the Khyber Pass and the Khanki Valley, and is inhabited by the Afridi and Orakzai tribes. It is chiefly notable as the scene of the Tirah Campaign

Vol. 26, pp. 1005-1005 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 32.73
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