[8] 610-641 A. D.
[9] See Greece under the Romans, by George Finlay, LL.D., page 338; “The sixth campaign opened with the Roman army in the plains of Assyria, and after laying waste some of the largest provinces of the Persian empire, Heraclius marched through the country to the east of the Tigris and captured the palace of Dastargerd, where the Persian monarchs had accumulated the greater part of their enormous treasure in a position always regarded as secure from any foreign enemy.”
[10] In Morocco.
[11] Important village of the province of Kūzistān.
[12] Latāif, page 107.
[13] B. 571-D. 632 A. D.
[14] Amr-ibn-el-Ass.
[15] Marchpane, a sweetmeat made of sweet almonds and pounded sugar.
[16] Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. XII, p. 826, gives 1506 as date of introduction of sugar in Santo Domingo. Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. XXVI, p. 44, says sugar carried to Santo Domingo in 1494.
[17] Encyclopædia Britannica, XXII, p. 658.