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DE QUIBUS ‘jut ae in nee awntofentry. Sec 
Fitz ‘herb. ae Brev. to 
fome river. 
vial in Geography, a town of Egypt; 11 miles S. of 
DERA, j in Ancient Geography, a country of Iberia, wa- 
tered by the river Sicanus, Steph. Byz.—Alfo, a town of 
A fia, in the interior of Sufiana 
See Dz EREYN. 
DERANOBILA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Car- 
ania. 
DERASN in har AC : town of Pol in 
the palatinate of Bracklaw pie s N. W. of Brackinw 
DER » a town r Polacd, in the palainate of 
Lucko ; 28 miles N.E. of Wacko. 
Ie, in ged hae eset acity of A : a Minor, in 
Lycaonia, near Ifau nville place ra 
fmall chain of moun ata n the 
meee of Hanria called Antiochiana. mentioned in 
e New Teftament, Ads xiv. 6. It ~ the feat of Anti- 
a Derbzus, and the country of Timot 
Dersez, in Geography, a town of eee in the duchy 
of Aofta; to miles W. of Aotta. 
DERBENT, or Dene. a city of Perfia, i in Da aghef- 
during the civil wars of Perfia, and the emprefs Catherine 
IT, took itin 1780, This city forms an oblong {quare on 
the declivity of an eminence, and is furrounded with a wall 
built of hewn ftone, five fathoms high, in many places 10 feet 
thick, and fortified with a number of round and f{quare 
towers. On the higheft point lies the fort, which nature 
and art have contributed to render impregnable ; but it lies 
too hy to defend the city, and ee oa to cover the 
fupplies this port with falt, and fk, both raw and wrought 
for exportation ; but Baku ts a more convenient harbour. 
Derbent was anciently denominated the Cafpian or Al- 
banian gates, as it occupies a fhort declivity between the 
mountains and the fea. The city, if we give credit to local 
tradition, had been founded by the Greeks; and this dan- 
erous entrance was fortified by the kings of. Perfia with a 
mole, double walls, and doors of iron. ‘The adjoining terri- 
ritory of Derbent is very inconfiderabte in extent, being 
only four German miles in length on the gira and ex- 
tending from one and a halt to two miles inland. The 
northern and fouthern boundaries are formed by the rivers 
Darbach and Rubas, between which lies a broad a partly 
marfhy level interfected by man 
and there ge with beautifu 1 and well can: 
er corn-felds, WN, lat. 41°52", E.long. 54° 30’. The 
in the to 
DER 
variation of the magnetic needle in June 16, 1796, was 
11° 41 oc" EL. 
T, a town of European ee in the province 
of Rowaia 20 miles of Adrianople 
RBENT, a town of Pertia, in the proauee of Chorafan ; 
IIo miles N E. of Tierat —Alfo, a town of Perfia, in the 
rovince of Chorafan 5 go mi‘es S. of Abiv verd, 
CES, in Ancient Fae a people of Afia, 
who o occupied the banks of t Xus, and who fursifhed 
Darius in his conteit againt pee nder with 2000 horfe- 
men.—A!f> 2 people of Africa, in the interior of Libya. 
DERBINSKOL, in Geography, a ‘Tartarian village of 
Siberia,-in the oe rnment of Ikuthk, on the Lesa, N. 
lat. 60° 20’. E. lon 16° 1 
DERBY, the couany a principal town in Derby 
fhire, Engiand, occupies a flat tra&t of la on the a a 
f aie. the waters of which aa emirently 
eo nee confli&s in the eal 
“a a few years 
7) 
poffeffed of all the principal towns in the ue 
counties of Lincoln. Stafford, Noein, and ieee 
Thdt Derby mie’ this peri. [a aea place offgrvat import 
ance, is evident from its being mentioned ta Domefday 
ook as on al borough of Edward the Confeffor, consi 
ing panes mills for grinding corn, and 243 burgeffes, forty- 
of whom he ibe four ea ae of taxed land, 
The annual rent then wa When William the 
rent-roll, to his illegitimate fon, William Peverell. It wa 
afterwards granted by Henry 1. to. the earl of Chefter, 
and made a corporate town ; but its charter has been altered 
at various day It obtained additional privileges from 
Henry I. and II. Richard 1. and John; in whofe time 
the cree were indebied to re exchequer §6 marks, for 
the confirmation of their liberties. In the fame reign, they 
were likewile returned debtors in fixty marks, and two pai- 
freys, tor holding the town of Der 
and 1o/. increafe for all fervices, and having fu 
was deprived of its ae and. faremoned ic on 
the king’s courts, to anfwer “ By what authority they de 
manded toll, yet paid none? Why they claimed the exclu- 
five privilege of dyeing cloth, and prohibiting cloths to be 
dyed in every other place within ten leagues, except Notting~ 
ham? They were alfo to declare by what right they choie’ 
a bailiff yearly; and why they kepr a fair on Vhurfday and 
Whitfun-week, and ancther of feventeen days at . 
Friday in 
the time of the feltival of St James: to explain by what 
authority they had a coroner; why the burgeffzs fhould not 
be {ued out of their own horough 3 3 and wherefore they held 
weekly markets on Sunday, Monday, Wednel ays and 
oie ?”? Some mutilated charters were produced in an- . 
{wer t o thele fa hearse ; but the aan of the town were 
s I. granted confirming the priv ileges 
beftowed i in ae nth eer civeding the corporation with 
additi 
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