Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), JOTABE

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JOTABE (Ἰωτάβη), an island in the Erythraean Sea, not less than 1000 stadia from the city of AELANA inhabited by Jews who, formerly independent, accepted the yoke of the Empire during the reign of Justinian (Procop. B. P. 1.19). It is now called Tiran, or Djeziret Tyran of Burkhardt (Trav. p. 531), the island at the entrance of the Gulf of Akabah. (Comp. Journ. of Geog. Soc. vol. vi. pp. 54, 55.) The modern name recalls the “Gens Tyra” of Pliny (6.33), placed by him in the interior of the Arabian gulf. (Ritter, Erdkunde, vol. xiii. pp. 223--225, vol. xiv. pp. 19, 262.)

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.

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