Abasia

Abasia [Abaçia -- _MS. _]; aloes-wood from Socotora; all of which they obtain at Ormuz.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

They comprise the provinces of Caucasus, Cireassia, Daghestan, Georgia, Abasia, Mingrelia, Imeritia, Shirvan, and Russian Armenia; but much of these regions is independent of Russia.

A Geography for Beginners. Kensey Johns 1864

There was a fine Abasian officer -- Abasia is a province bordering on the

Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Mr Nijim, a resident of Teckhomatorp in southern Sweden who had been vacationing in Egypt, said he had been taking pictures of a mosque in the al-Abasia suburb of Cairo when two police in civilian clothing arrested him and drove him to a nearby police station.

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