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it is fortilied in the ancient manner, with a ditch, walls, and 

 bulwarks. It had been the camp of John Zilka in tlie year 

 1420, and was raifed to a royal borough by the emperor 

 Sigifmund. It was taken by llratajrem by Rodolph II. in 

 l6i?, ajid alfo in 1621, 1648, and 1744; 10 miles N.E. 

 of Bechin. N. lat. 49° 27'. E. long. 14° 28'. 



Tabok, Mnunl, a mountain of Palelliue, frequently m'-n- 

 tioned in the Old Teftamcnt. (See Jofh. xiv. 22. Judg. 

 iv. 6. 12. Pf. Ixxxix. 12. Jer. xlvi. 18. Hof. v. i.) 

 It ftands about the middle of Lower Galilee, between 

 Nazareth and the co\mtry of Gennefareth. According to 

 Jofephus, it is 30 furlongs in height, and 26 in compafs. 

 It is an infulatcd mountain, fituated on a plain (that of Ef- 

 draelon), and having a level area at the fummit, very fer- 

 tile and pleafaiit. According to Maundrell, this area is 

 of an oval figure, extending in breadth about a furlong, and 

 two furlongs in length, .lofcphus fays, that he caufcd it 

 to be furrounded by walls, within the fpace of 40 days, 

 that he might thus, without doubt, render it more inaccef- 

 fible to the Romans. 



An ancient tradition informs us, that Jcfus was tranf- 

 figured upon mount Tabor (fee Matt. xvii. 2. Mark, ix. 2. 

 Luke, ix. 28.), and that this is the place which is called 

 by St. Peter the " holy mount." (2 Pet. i. 18.) Some 

 learned authors, however, are of opinion, that the tranf- 

 figuration happened upon a mountain near Ctefarea Philippi, 

 i ,'. upon mount Paiiium, which is very high, according to 

 Jofephus. We find the city called Tabor, mentioned 

 I Chron. vi. 77 ; but it is not well known, how it was fituated 

 with relation to the mount. 



Tabor, Tabour, Tabret, or Tabour'm, a fmall drum; 

 (which fee.) It is an accompaniment to a fmall pipe or 

 fife ; inftniments very animating in a country dance. 



TABO RITES, or Thaborites, in Ecclejiajlkal H'lf- 

 tory, a branch or feft of the ancient Huffites. 



The Huflltes, towards the beginning of the 15th cen- 

 tury, dividing into feveral parties, and about the year 1420, 

 into two great faftions ; one of them retired to a httle 

 mountain or rock, fituate in Bohemia, 15 leagues from 

 Prague, and there put themfelves under the conduft of 

 Ziflta ; building themfelves a fort or caftle, and a regular 

 city, which they called Tabor or Thabor, either from the 

 general word thabor, which in the Sclavonic language figni- 

 fies cajlk ; or from the mountain Tabor, mentioned in Scrip- 

 ture ; and hence they became denominated Thaborites. 

 Thofe of the other party were denominated Cnlixt'ins. 



The Taborites not only infifted upon reducing the reh- 

 gion of Jefus to its primitive firaphcity, but required alfo 

 that the fyftem of ecclefialHcal government fliould be re- 

 formed in the fame manner, the authority of the pope de- 

 ftroyed, and the form of divine worfhip changed : they 

 demanded the ereftion of a new church and hierarchy, in 

 which Chrift alone (hould reign, and all things fhould be 

 carried on by a divine dircftion and impulfe. In maintain- 

 ing thefe demajids, fome of their leaders went fo far as to 

 flatter themfelves with the chimerical notion, that Chrift 

 woidd defcend in perfon upon earth, armed with fire and 

 fword, to extirpate herefy, and purify the church from its 

 numerous corruptions. This enthufialtic elafs of Huffites 

 alone, Mofheim fays, we are to look upon as accountable 

 for all thofe afts of violence, which are too indiicriminately 

 laid to the charge of tlie Huffites in general, and to their 

 two leaders, Zifka and Procopius, in particular. After the 

 time of the council of Bafil, in 1433, which endeavoured, 

 though without fuccefs, to reconcile the Taborites with 

 the Roman pontiff, they began to review their religious 

 tenets, and their ecclefiaftical difcipline, with a defign to 



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render them more perfeiS. This review, conduced with 

 great prudence and impartiality, gave a rational afpeft to 

 the religion of this feft, who withdrew themfelves from the 

 war with Sigifmund, in which they were engaged, abandoned 

 the doArincs, which, upon ferious examination, they foimd 

 to be inconfiftent with the genius and fpirit of the Gofpel, 

 and banifhed from their communion all thofe whofe dif- 

 ordered brains or licentious manners might expofe them to 

 reproach. The Taborites, thus new-modelled, were the 

 fame with thofe Bohemian brethren (or Picards, /. e. Beg- 

 hards, as their adverfaries called them) who joined Luther 

 and his fucceffors at the Reformation, and of whom there 

 are at this day many of the defcendants and followers in 

 Poland and other countries. Mofh. Eccl. Hift. vol. iii. 



TABORNOST, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the 

 country of Darah ; 120 miles S.E. of Morocco. 



TABORO, a mountain of Naples, in Principato Citra, 

 on the confines of Lavora. 



TABOROWKA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 

 of Kiev ; 1 6 miles W.N. W. of Bialacerkiev. 



TABOTUVO, a town of Africa, oa the Ivory Coaft ; 

 45 miles S.W. of Druin. 



TABOU, a town of Africa, on the Ivory Coall ; 36 

 miles S.W. of Druin. 



TABOURET, Privilege of the, in France, is a privilege 

 fome great ladies enjoy, to lit, or have a ftool, in the queen's 

 prefence. 



TABRE, in Geography, a town of Hindoollan, in the 

 Carnatic ; 15 miles E. of Volconda. 



TABREEZ, or Tauris, a city of Perfia, the capital of 

 the province of Adirbeitzan, or Azerbijan. Sir William 

 Jones, and other learned perfons, are of opinion, that this 

 city was the ancient Ecbatana. M. D'Anville, adjudging 

 that honour to Hamadan, conceives Tauris to be Gaza, or 

 Gunzaca, where Cyrus depofited the treafures of Croefus, 

 and which was afterwards taken by Heraclius. According 

 to the Perfians, Zobcida, the celebrated wife of Haroun-ul- 

 Rafhid, was its founder ; but on their authority we can place 

 little reliance. It is certain, however, that Tauris was a 

 favourite refidence of Haroun-ul-Rafhid ; and though he had 

 not the honour of founding this city, it is probable that he 

 improved and cmbeUiftied it in a confiderable degree. In 

 the days of Chardin, it was one of the largeft and moll 

 populous cities in the Eaft, and, according to that traveller, 

 contained half a milHon of inhabitants. But no town has 

 fuffercd more from the ravages of W'ar. Situated towards 

 the frontiers of contending empires, it has alternately been oc- 

 cupied by Turks, Tartars, and Perfians, and has been cap- 

 tured and facked eight different times ; but its ruin has been 

 chiefly owing to the number of earthquakes which have, at 

 different times, levelled its proudell edifices with the duft. 



Tabreez does not now contain more than 30,000 inha- 

 bitants, and is one of the moil wretched cities in Perfia. It 

 is feated on an immenfe plain at the foot of a mountain, on 

 the banks of a fmall river, the waters of which are confumed 

 in the cultivation. This river, called Agi, proceeds from 

 the mountains at Buftum, and enters the plain of Tabreez 

 three miles N. of that city. This city is furrounded with 

 a decayed wall, and the only decent houfe in the place is a 

 new barrack, erefted by the prince for the accommodation 

 of his troops. The ruins of the ancient city are very ex- 

 tenfivc and very mean, being nothing but a confufed mafs of 

 old mud walls. Tabreez is fituated in N. lat. 38"^ 10'. E. 

 long. 46° 37'. Kinneir's Mem. of the Perfian Empire. 



TABUDA, in Ancient Geography, a river of Belgic 

 Gaul, in the country of the Morini, near Gefforiacum 

 Navale. Ptol. 



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