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1 400, by the Venetians, in whofe Lands it afterwards con- 

 tinued. Zara is furrounded on all f.dcs by the fea, except 

 that it has a communication eaftvvard with the continent, 

 bv means of a draw-bridge, commanded by a fort. It is 

 reckoned one of the bell fortifications in Dalmatia, and 

 deemed ahnoll impregnable. The citadel >s divided from 

 the town by a very deep ditch, hewn out of a rock 1 he 

 harbour, which lies to the north, is capacious, fafe, and 

 xvell guarded. The rain is carefully preferved in citterns, 

 to iupply the want of fred. water. In the caftle ref.des the 

 govern^ or proveditor uf Dalmatia, whofe office is only 

 friennial. It now belongs to the kingdom of Italy ; 28 

 miles N.W. of Scardona. N. lat. 44° 22'. E. long. 15 



Zaka Fecchla, Old Zara, or BlograJ, or ^Iba Man- 

 tima, a town of Dalmatia, now little better than a village. 

 In the time of the Romans it was a place of confiderable 

 figure, and received a new fet of inhabitants by a numerous 

 colony of that people. In the middle ages it was called 

 Behrad, or jllba Maris, and more anciently Blandona. 

 According to fome it was ruined by Attila ; but we know 

 with more certainty that it was deftroyed in the war between 

 the Venetians and the Hungarians, by the doge Ordelafo 

 Falieri. Some banditti afterv^ards mixing with the inhabit- 

 ants that remained, the republic, to check their exceffes, 

 ordered a general maffacre of the robbers, in which the 

 ancient inhabitants were not fpared. Here was alfo a 

 bilhop's fee, which, on the demolition of the town, was re- 

 moved to Scardona ; at prefent its inhabitants confift only 

 of a few pcafants ; 18 miles S.E. of Zara. 

 Zara. See Scharedsje. 



Zara, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Moabites, 

 taken by Alexander Jannxus. — Alfo, a town of Afia, to- 

 wards Armenia, upon the route from Arabiffum to Satala, 

 between Eumeas and DagolafTum. Anton. Itin. 



ZARAISK, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in the go- 

 vernment of Riazan, on the Ofer; ^24 miles S.W. of 

 Riazan. N. lat. 54° 30'. E. long. 38° 24'. 



ZARAMA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 the interior of Media. Ptolemy. 



ZARANDA, a name anciently given to the Euphrates. 

 ZARANG, the Zarange of Ptolemy, in Geography, a 

 populous city of Perfia, in the province of Segeftan or 

 Sciftan, fituated pleafantly on the banks of the Hearmund. 

 This was the cuftomary refidence of Jacob Ben Lath, the 

 conqueror of the caliph of Bagdad, and ftood a long fiege 

 againft Tinuir, by whom it was at laft. taken. Zarang is 

 fuppofed to be the fame with the prefent Doofhak, the 

 old name having been loft in the revolutions to which this 

 province has been fubjeft for more than a century, and to 

 which its prefent defolated ftate may, in a great meafure, 

 be attributed. For a further account of it, fee Segestan. 

 ZARANIS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 the interior of Media. Ptolemy. 



ZARATE, Augustine de, in Biography, a Spanifh 

 hiftorian, was fent by Charles V. in 1543 to South Ame- 

 rica, as comptroller-general in Peru and Terra Firma ; and 

 having colIeCled all the memoirs he could procure, he com- 

 pofed his work " Del Defcubrimento y Conquifta de la 

 Provincia del Peru," firft printed at Antwerp in 1555, 8vo. 

 jnd reprinted at Seville, 1577, foho : the firft edition being 

 regarded as moft authentic. It has been tranflated into 

 Italian and French, and is commended as a work of repu- 

 tation and credit by Dr. Robertfon. Moreri. Robertfon's 

 America. 



Zakate, in Geography, a town of South America, in 

 the province of St. Martha ; 15 miles S. of TenerifFe. 



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ZARAYOS, or Sharayos, a fuppofed lake of Ame- 

 rica, in the courfe of the river Paraguay, which only exifts 

 during the annual inundations, that are on a far grander 

 fcale than thofe of the Ganges, and may be faid to deluge 

 whole provinces. 



ZARCA, a town of Egypt, on the eaft branch of the 

 Nile ; lo miles S. of Damictta. 



ZARCHAS, or Tcharkas, a town of Perfia, in the 

 province of Chorafan, or Khoraflan ; 150 miles N. of 

 Herat. 



ZARCOIA, a town of Perfia, in the province of 

 Segeftan ; 1 2 miles W. of Zarang. 



ZARDAM. See Sardam. 



ZARE, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chorafan, 

 or Khoraffan, on the north fide of a lake fo called ; 70 

 miles S. of Herat. — Alfo, a lake of Perfia, in the province 

 of Segeftan ; 60 miles N. of Zarang. See Zerreh. 



ZARED, in Ancient Geography, a torrent beyond Jor- 

 dan, on the frontier of the Moabites. This torrent had 

 its fource in the mountains, E. of the country of Moab, and 

 proceeding from the E. to the W. difcharged itfelf into the 

 Dead fea. The Ifraelites paffed it 38 years before their 

 departure from Kadefti-Barnea. Numb. xxi. 12. Deut. ii. 

 13, 14. 



ZAREPHATH. See Sarepta. 



ZARESH-SHEKER,orSARAT-AFER, a city of Reu- 

 ben, beyond Jordan. Jo(h. xiii. 19. 



Z ARETHA, or ZaretjE, a people comprifed under 

 the name of Scythians, on this fide of the Imaus, fouth of 

 mounts Maflsi and Alani. Ptol. 



ZAREX, a port of Laconia, on the Argolic gulf, S. 

 of Cyphanta. Near this port was a temple of Apollo, 

 with a ftatue of this god, holding in his hand a lyre. To 

 the fouth, and parallel to the coaft, was a mountain called 

 Zarex. 



ZARFA, in Botany, a name given by Leo Africanus, 

 and others, to the lotus, or nettle-tree. 



ZARGIDAVA, in Ancient Geography, a town fituated 

 on the bank of the river Hierafus, in the interior of Lower 

 Mcefia, a httle above Tamafiava. 



ZARIASPA, or Zariaspe, a town of Afia, in 

 Baftriana, watered by a river of the fame name, which dif- 

 charged itfelf into the Oxus. Strabo. It was alfo called 

 Badlra. Steph. Byz. 



ZARIFU, a word by which fome of the chemical 

 writers have expreffed tin. 



ZARIK, in Geography, a town of European Turkey, 

 in the Morea ; 22 miles E. of Mifitra. 



ZARIMA, a town of South America, in the province 

 of Quito; 220 miles S. of Quito. S. lat. 3° 36'. W. 

 long. 79° 36'. 



ZARJON, a town of South America, in the govern- 

 ment of Buenos Ayres ; 300 miles N.N.W. of Buenos 

 Ayres. 



ZARLINO, Giuseppe da Chioggia, maeftro di capella 

 of St. Mark's church at Venice, and the moft general, 

 voluminous, and celebrated theorift and writer on mufic in 

 the Italian language during the i6th century, was born in 

 1540, and author of the following mufical treatifes, which, 

 though feparately printed, and at different periods, are 

 generally bound up together in one thick folio volume : — 

 " Inftitutioni Harmoniche," Venice, 1558, 1562, 1573, and 

 1589; " Dimoftrationi Harmon." Vtn. 1571, and 1589 ; 

 and " Sopplimenti Muficali," Ven. 1588. We difcover by 

 thefe dates, that Zarhno firft appeared as an author at the 

 age of 1 8 ; and from that period till he had arrived at 49, 

 he was continually revifing and augmenting his works. 



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