![]() ![]() Peninsula of the Arabs Persian and Turkish, Arabistân: Arabia), the westernmost of the three great peninsulas of Southern Asia, is one of the most imperfectly known regions of the civilized world but yet among the most interesting, as one of the earliest seats of the great Semitic race, who have preserved in it their national characteristics and independence from the days of the patriarchs to the present hour and as the source and centre of the most tremendous revolution that ever altered the condition of the nations. Land of the Arabs, Jezi- răt- el- Arab, i. Ἀράβιος, Ἀραβικός, Arabus, Arabius, Arabicus: the A is short, but forms with the A long and the r doubled are also found: native names, Belâd- el- Arab, i.
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