The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Nitria

  • desert

The Nitrian desert west of the Nile delta, a waste of sand, salt lakes, and monastic cells. It is the classic landscape of the early Egyptian hermits, separate from the Thebaid farther upstream.

Type
desert
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 112
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1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The Nitrian desert west of the Nile delta, a waste of sand, salt lakes, and monastic cells. It is the classic landscape of the early Egyptian hermits, separate from the Thebaid farther upstream.

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