Z E I 



a place of fome trade, paniculaily in cattle. In the yaar 

 ICO-?, all its defence was a moat nud rairipart ; but tailing 

 iomi time after into the hands of the Turks, they ereacd a 

 brick fort. In 1686, the Imperialills d.fpoCen.-.i the Turks 

 of it ; 68 miles N. of Belgrade. N. lat. 46 15'. E. 



lone. 19° 56'- , , r »/r 11- • 



ZEGGO, a town of Africa, in the country of Melh, in 

 the road from Kong to Cafhna ; 100 miles N.N. W. of 

 Malel. N.lat. i4». E. long. 8°. , m f 



ZEGHAMA, a town of Dar-turj 60 miles N. ot 



ZEGHEN, a town of Fezzan ; 65 miles N. of 



Mourzouk. , r 1 , A ■ 11 



ZEGI Zagi, a word uled by Avicenna and others 

 lo exprefs'all the feveral vitriolic minerals. See Chalgitis, 



and COLCOTHAR. p A r • rr, , 



ZEGMA, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 

 the province of Diarbekir, on the Euphrates, oppofue to 

 Romkala. 



ZEGUTI, a town of Imiretia ; 20 miles S.W. of 



Cotatis. 



ZEGZEG, a city of Africa, and capital of a country 

 of the fame name, fituated to the cad of Agadcs ; 370 

 miles N.N.E. of Cafhna. N. lat. 20° 45'. E. long. 16°. 

 ZEHDENICK, a town of Brandenburg, in the Ucker 

 Mark, on the Havel. In it is a convent for ladies of noble 

 defceut, confining of a domina and fix fillers. It carries on 

 a large trade in wood and corn : in the paftures, near the 

 town, iron-ore is met with in great abundance, and accord- 

 ingly there is a mill here for that purpofc, which is driven 

 by the Havel. At this place likewife is a foundery, where 

 bombs, grenadoes, bullets, mortars, pots, weights, and 

 even fmall caMnon are call ; 28 miles S.S.W. of Prenzlow. 

 N. lat. 52° 58'. E. long. 13^22'. 



ZEHDIN, a town of Brandenburg, in the New Mark ; 

 40 miles E. of Oderberg. 



ZEHERECH, a word ufed by fome of the chemical 

 writers to exprefs flowers of brafs. 



ZEHISTA, in Geography, a town of Saxony, in the 

 margravate of MeifTeii ; 3 miles S. of Pirna. 



ZEHRENDORF, a town of Brandenburg, in the 

 Middle Mark ; 3 miles S. of ZofTen. 



ZEIDOURE, adiilria of Algiers, between Tremecen 

 and Oran. 



ZEIL, a town of Bavaria, in the bilhopric of Bamberg ; 

 12 miles W.N. W. of Bamberg. N. lat. 50° i'. E. long. 

 10° 40'. — Alio, a town and caftle of Germany, which 

 gives name to a county ; 4 miles N. of Leutkirch. 



ZEILA, or Zella, or Sejla, a fea-port town of Afri- 

 ca, in the kingdom of Adel, fituated on the coaft of the 

 Arabian fea, at the mouth of the Hanazo, or Hawafh, 

 which forms a bay, called the Bay or Gulf of Zeila. • It 

 receives a governor from the dola of Mocha. N. lat. 10° 

 45'. E. long. 44° 20'. 



ZEILSHEIM, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg ; 

 4 miles N. of Volckach. — Alfo, a town of the duchy of 

 Wurzburg ; 4 miles E.N.E. of Arnftein. 



ZEINDEROOD, or Zenderoud, a river of Perfia, 

 in the province of Irak, which has its fource in the Kohi- 

 zard, or Yellow mountain, where an aqueduft may yet be 

 feen, by which Abbas the Great attempted to unite its 

 waters with thofe of the Karoon. The Zeinderood pafies 

 through the city of Ifpahan, and is faid to be abforbed in 

 the irrigation of the neighbouring territory, or to lofe 

 itfelf in a lake, 15 miles S.W. of Lauriftan. On this river 

 are three bridges, two of which are in good repair ; parti- 

 cularly that of the Char Bang (lour gardens), fo called 



Z E L 



from its connefting the upper and lower Chaur Baug, the 

 name given to a fpacious avenue, which run- from the royal 

 fquare t-> the foot of the mountains E. of Ifpahan. 



ZEISELMAN, a town of Auftria ; 3 miles E. of 

 TuUn. 



ZEISPERG, a town of Auftria ; 3 miles E.N.E. of 

 Crems. 



ZEITHAYN, a town of Saxony, in the margravate of 

 Mciflen, famous for a pleafure-camp which king Au- 

 gullus II. made there, in 1730, at the cxpence of five mil- 

 lions of rix-doUars. On the fpot which was ufed for thi?! 

 camp, and the exercifing of the army, are ereftedfix large 

 pyramids ; and medals have likewife been (Iruck upon it, and 

 a grand rcprefentation thereof engraved on copper ; 8 mile; 

 W.N.W. of GrolTenhayn. 



ZEITLOSS, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg, on 

 the river Sinn ; 10 miles N- of Gmunden. 



ZEITON, a town of European Turkey, in ThefTaly, 

 on a gulf to which it gives name. Here are about 400 

 Chriftian families, but the greater part of the inliabitants 

 confifts of Turks ; 48 miles S.S.E. of Laiiffa. N. lat. 

 39° 6'. E. long. 22° 58'. 



Zeiton, a gulf or bay of the Egjean fea, on the E. coatl 

 of ThefTaly, N.W. of the ifland of Negroponte. 



ZEITOON, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ears 

 or Farfiftan, containing about zooo inhabitants, and 

 fituated in a pleafant valley, fertilized by both the branches 

 of the river Tab, which here form a junftion. Zeitoon is 

 about fifteen miles dlftant from Behaban, the capital of the 

 mountainous diftricl of Khogilfea, which extends from the 

 valley of Ram Hormuz to the vicinity of Kazeroon. 



ZEITOUN,atown of Afiatic Turkey, in the government 

 of Sivas, on the Kizilermak ; 33 miles W. of Samfoun. 



ZEITRABRA, a term ufed by fome of the chemifla to 

 exprefs any thing that is fluxile. 



ZEITZ, in Geography, a town of Saxony, in the bi- 

 fliopric of Naumburg, anciently the fee of a bifhop, founded 

 by the emperor Oti.o I. afterwards transferred to Naum- 

 burg, after this to. vn had been facked and almoft dellroyed 

 by the Vandals in the year 982 ; 15 miles E.S.E. of Naum- 

 burg. N.lat. 5i°3'. E. long. 12° 2'. 



ZEKELHEIB, atown of Hungary ; 8 miles N.N.W. 

 of St. Job. 



ZELA, atown of Perfia, in the province of Segeilan ; 

 25 miles S.W. of F?rah. 



Zela, Ziela, or Zeleja, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 of Thrace, afterwards called Flaviopolis. — Alfo, a town of 

 Afia, in Cappadocia Pontus, near the Lycus. It was ce- 

 lebrated by the defeat of Triarius, the Roman general, and 

 afterwards by that of Pharnaces. Here was a famous tem- 

 ple, reprefented upon fome medals, confecrated to the god- 

 defs Anaijtis, a Perfian divinity, whofe pontiff was very 

 powerful under ancient kings ; but in procefs of time his 

 authority and revenues werediminifhed. The town and the 

 minifters of the temple were dependent on Pithodiris, who 

 poffefled a part of the territory ; other parts were ceded to 

 the pontiffs of Zela and Comanes,''and the reft was annexed 

 to the Roman province. According to Strabo, Zela and its 

 territory were fituated to the left of the river ; the facred 

 lands of the temple, and the domains of the pontiff, were in 

 the environs of the town. He adds that it was fortified and 

 built in the retrenchment of Semiramis ; and in the firft 

 times it had dnly fome houfes near the temple ; but Pompey 

 made it a town. 



ZELAH, or Sela, a city of Benjamin (Jofh. xviii. 28.), 

 where Saul was buried in the tomb of his father, Kifli. 

 2 Sam. xxi. 14. 



ZELAN, 



