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_, _Syria_, _Arabia_, _Egypt_, _Africa_ and _Spain_. They afterwards lost _Africa_ to _Mahades_, A.C. 910; _Media_, _Hircania_, _Chorasan_, and all _Persia_, to the _Dailamites_, between the years 927 and 935; _Mesopotamia_ and _Miafarekin_ to _Nasiruddaulas_, A.C. 930; _Syria_ and _Egypt_ to _Achsjid_, A.C. 935, and now being in great distress, the Caliph of _Bagdad_, A.C. 936, surrendred all the rest of his temporal power to _Mahomet_ the son of _Rajici_, King of _Wasit_ in _Chaldea_, and made him Emperor of Emperors. But _Mahomet_ within two years lost _Bagdad_ to the _Turks_; and thenceforward _Bagdad_ was sometimes in the hands of the _Turks_, and sometimes in the hands of the _Saracens_, till _Togrul-beig_, called also _Togra_, _Dogrissa_, _Tangrolipix_, and _Sadoc_, conquered _Chorasan_ and _Persia_; and A.C. 1055, added _Bagdad_ to his Empire, making it the seat thereof. His successors _Olub-Arflan_ and _Melechschah_, conquered the regions upon _Euphrates_; and these conquests, after the death of _Melechschah_, brake into the kingdoms of _Armenia_, _Mesopotamia_, _Syria_, and _Cappadocia_. The whole time that the Caliphs of the _Saracens_ reigned with a temporal dominion at _Damascus_ and _Bagdad_ together, was 300 years, viz. from the year 637 to the year 936 inclusive. Now locusts live but five months; and therefore, for the decorum of the type, these locusts are said to _hurt men five months and five months_, as if they had lived about five months at _Damascus_, and again about five months at _Bagdad_; in all ten months, or 300 prophetic days, which are years. The sixth trumpet sounded to the wars, which _Daniel_'s King of the _North_ made against the King above-mentioned, _who did according to his will_. In these wars the King of the _North_, according to _Daniel_, conquered the Empire of the _Greeks_, and also _Judea_, _Egypt_, _Lybia_, and _Ethiopia_: and by these conquests the Empire of the _Turks_ was set up, as may be known by the extent thereof. These wars commenced A.C. 1258, when the four kingdoms of the _Turks_ seated upon _Euphrates_, that of _Armenia major_ seated at _Miyapharekin_, _Megarkin_ or _Martyropolis_, that of _Mesopotamia_ seated at _Mosul_, that of all _Syria_ seated at _Aleppo_, and that of _Cappadocia_ seated at _Iconium_, were invaded by the _Tartars_ under _Hulacu_, and driven into the western parts of _Asia minor_, where they made war upon the _Greeks_, and began to erect the prese
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