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IT. long. 4* 5 1 '. The place 0011101033533, and the canton 

 8445 inhabitants, on a territory of 130 kiliometres, in 20 

 communes. 



GIUF, L.\, a diftrift of Arabia, in the province of 

 Nedsjcd ; E. of mount Ramleah. 



GIULA, a town of Hungary, fituatcd on the river 

 Keres; 52 miles N. N. W. of Tenufv. ar. N. lat. 46' 35'. 

 E. \oTi'^. 20 55'. 



GIULAB, a town of Afntic Turkey, in the govern- 

 ment uf Diarbokir; 18 miles N. N. E of Ourfa. 



GU'LENEI, a fmall ifland in the Cafpian fea ; ip 

 jniles 3. of Aftrachan. N. lat. 44 1 j'. E. long. 4'' 49'. 



GIULI A Niov.i, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Ultra, 

 on the coall of tlie Adriatic ; 12 miles E. N. E. of Te- 

 ramo. 



GiULi.\, St. a town of France, in the department of the 

 Stura ; 12 miles S.S.W. of Acqui. 



GIULIAXO, St. a mountain of Etruria, near Pifa, at 

 the foot of which are warm baths, known in the time of 

 Pliny. — Alfo, a town of Naples, in Capitanata ; 9 miles 

 W.S.W. of Dragonera. — Alfo, a town of Naples, in the 

 county of Mohfe ; 13 milei 6.S.E. of Molife. — Alfo, a 

 town of Naples, in the province of Otranto ; 17 miles 

 S.S.W. of Brindifi.— Alfo, a town of Italy, in the de- 

 partment of the Olona ; 7 miles S.E. of Milan. 



GIV'ORS, a town of tVance, in the department of the 

 Rhone, and chief place of a canton, in the diitricl of Lyons ; 



12 miles S. of Lyons. The place contains 3200, and the 

 c"nton 10,590 inhabitants, on a territory of go kiliometres, 

 in 10 communes. 



GIVRY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Saone and Loire, and chief plnce of a canton, in the dillricl 

 of Chalons-fur-Saone ; 4 miles W. of it. N. lat. 46 47'. 

 E. long. 4" 50'. The place contains 2532, and the c:inton 

 11.405 inhabitants, on a territory of I32i kiliometres, in 



13 communes. 



GIUSEPPE Aprile. See Tendlcci. 



Giuseppe Arena, in Biography, an able compofer of Na- 

 ples, whofe rtyle had much of the briUiancy of that fchool. 

 In 1 741 he fet the fcrious drama of Tigrane, written by 

 Goldoni, to mufic, for the great theatre of St. John Chry- 

 follom, at Venice, which eftablilhed his character. 



GIUSMARK, in Geography, a town of Curdiftan ; 80 

 miles S S.E. of Betlis. 



GIUSTENDIL, a town of European Turkey, in Bul- 

 garia ; 24 miles S, of Sophia. 



GIUSTINELLI, in Biography, a fecond-rate Italian 

 finger in foprano, arrived here, in 1762, with De Amicis 

 and her family, as firft ferious man in the burletta operas. 

 He had a good voice, and fufScient m.erit to fupply the place 

 of fecond man on our ftage, in the ferious operas, for feve- 

 ral years after. 



GIUSTINIANI, AuGusTix, was born at Genoa 

 in 1470, was educated for the church, and in 1514 

 was made bifhop of Nebbio in Corfica. He publilhed, in 

 1516, a Pfalter in four languages, •vi'z,. the Hebrew, Greek, 

 Arabic, and Chaldee, with interpretations : this was theRril 

 of the Polyglott editions of the books of fcripture. After 

 this, he was invited by Francis I. to Paris, and appointed to 

 the profcflbrfhip of the Oriental languages in that univerfity, 

 an office which he held about (ive years. During this period 

 he received a penfion from the crown, and was enabled to 

 colleft a very choice library, which he afterwards prefented 

 to therepuljlic of Genoa. In the year 1536, in paffing by 

 fea to liis bifhopric, he was loll with his (hip. This prelate 

 revifcd and edited the treatife written by Porchetti, entitled 

 *• Victoria adverfus impios Judzos.'' Some time after his 



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death, were publiHicdhis "Annals of the Republic of Ge- 

 noa,'' from the foundation of the ci'.v, to the year 1528 : 

 this work is highly elteemed for its information, and for tlie 

 veracity of the faCts. Moreri. 



GiLsTiNi.VNi, Beknaud, 3 Venetian nobleman, bom in 

 1408, was educated under the moll learned perfons of his 

 time, and obtained a high celebrity for his own knowledge 

 and eloquence. He was employed on feveral honourable oc- 

 cafions by the republic. In 145 1 he was appointed to re- 

 ce.ve the emperor Frederic III. wlien he pafll-d through the 

 V cnetian territories. He was afterwards f.ledcd as a ht per- 

 fon to be fent on cmbaffies to Ferdinand, king of Naples, to 

 feveral of the popes, and to Lewis XI. king of France, 

 who honoured him with knighthood. In 1467 he was made- 

 captain commandant of Padua, and admitted to almoil all 

 the honours of the Hate, and liiiiiUy procurator of St. Mark. 

 He died in 1489. He was author of many works : as pub- 

 lic orations : the life of his uncle "The blefled Lorenzo 

 Giulliniani ;" three pieces on the life, the tranflation, and the 

 appearance of St. Mark : a verfion of the book of Socrates 

 to Nicocles : foine Latin letters of his father Leonardo j 

 and the ancient hillory of Venice, written in Latin. This 

 lall was tranfl^cd into Italian by Lodov. Domenichi. It 

 was the work of his old age, but is highly elleemed, bccaufe 

 the authorities are drawn from tiic belt fources, and the au- 

 thor rejedts the fables handed down by fome other writers. 

 Moreri. 



GIZE', Giz.\n, or Tiza, in Geography, a confiderable town 

 of Egypt, extending a'ong the v.cll bank of the Nile, on the 

 other lide of the illand of Roudda, or Raonda, with rcfpect to 

 Cairo ; 3 miles S. W. of Cairo. This town was fortified by 

 Ifmail Bey, who alfo built a palace there, completed and lince 

 inhabited by Murad Bey, who has eftablifhed a canroa 

 foundery. Here is alfo a manufacture of fal ammon iac. Tlie 

 walls of Gizc are of great extent, and have only one gate to 

 the country ; they are ten feet high, three feet thick, and 

 have fix half-moons ; but are only la to refill cavalr\-, the 

 original intention in railing tliem. Murad Bey has fiifiercd 

 the iron-work about the loop-holes to bo plundered or ruined. 

 The palace is in the fouthern quarter of the city, clofe to the 

 water ; it has numerous apartments for the Mamluks, and 

 every convenience for eafe or luxury. Murad Bey has, of 

 late years, thouglit it neceffary to inl'litute a marine ; having 

 purchafed fome veffels of the Europeans, and built three or 

 four others. The largeft of thefe veflels carries 24 guns: thofc- 

 that are occallonally moored before Gi.'.c cannot be navigat- 

 ed hence, except during the time of the Nile's increafe. 

 The mariners are chiefly Greeks of the Archipelago. Not 

 far fouth of Gize is '• Geziret-el-dahab," a fmall ifland, 

 which Diodorus Siculus denominated " Venus A urea." 

 N. E. of the city are gardens, and fome fpacious houfes, oc- 

 cupied by the a.fluent and great, who occallonally leave the 

 city to amufe thcmfelves in this retreat ; and thev have tliere 

 an open fpace where the Mamluks perform their mihtary 

 evolutions, and exercife their liorfes. The ground under 

 the mountains to the eaft is lilkd with tombs. The moun- 

 tain is of white fand and calcareous Hone, and deilitute of 

 verdure. The numerous date-trtes by which Gize is fur- 

 rounded, interfperfed with the lofty turrets of the mofqr.eSv 

 and tile river, whofe waves wafn the very foundation of the 

 houts, give it, at a diilance, a very plealing afped. Dr. 

 Shaw is of opinion, that the ancient Memphis ftood on the 

 fcite of Gize ; but this is difputcd bv Savary and otlieri. 

 (See Mkmphis.) Tliis is the ncareil fpot, fays Siinnini, to. 

 the moll valuable monuments v^'hich ancient Eg}"pt has lefr 

 behind of her glorj- and her power. The nearcll pyramids 

 are at the diilance of three leagues, and they are iodifcrimi- 



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