Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 255
upon inc. He had once been tlieowner of llie castle, but had been ihiveii from it by an ad-venturer ol some celebrity in this part ot Kurdistan, ihismarauder had recently been cajjtured by the Turks, who hadseized his ]iroperty, luii had not restored it to its rightfidowner. The villaLje, once a… … The Castle of Mahmoudiyah. of which the Bey of Jezirah, or Bohtan, is the acknowledgedhead. The castle, built in the fifteenth century, is calledNerin, or more generally Kosh-Ab, the sweet water, fromthe i^ure stream flowing beneath it. We rose early next morning, and went up to the castle.As it…
