Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Ara, Arbēla

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Arbēla

（τὰ Ἄρβηλα). A city of Adiabené in Assyria, the headquarters of Darius Codomanus before the last battle in which he was overthrown by Alexander (B.C. 331), which is hence frequently called the battle of Arbela, though it was really fought near Gaugamela, about fifty miles west of Arbela.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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