[Aramæa], the territories lying to NE. of Palestine, the inhabitants of which spoke a Semitic dialect called Aramaic, and improperly Chaldee.
[Arama`ic], the language of Palestine in the days of Christ, a Semitic dialect that has now almost entirely died out.
[Aramæ`ans], a generic name given to the Semitic tribes that dwelt in the NE. of Palestine, also to those that dwelt at the mouths of the Euphrates and the Tigris.
[Aran, Val d'], a Pyrenean valley, source of the Garonne, and one of the highest of the Pyrenees.
[Aran Islands], three islands with antique relics across the mouth of Galway Bay, to which they form a breakwater.
[Aranda, Count of], an eminent Spanish statesman, banished the Jesuits, suppressed brigandage, and curtailed the power of the Inquisition, was Prime Minister of Charles IV., and was succeeded by Godoy (1719-1798).
[Aranju`ez] (8), a town 28 m. SE. of Madrid, long the spring resort of the Spanish Court.
[Ar`any, Janos], a popular Hungarian poet of peasant origin, attained to eminence as a man of letters (1819-1882).
[Ar`arat], a mountain in Armenia on which Noah's ark is said to have rested, 17,000 ft. high, is within Russian territory, and borders on both Turkey and Persia.