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  • Then Jamrkan made his troops, who had swelled to a mighty many, rest a day and a night and marched with the dawn, intending to attack Jaland bin Karkar in the city Of Oman; whilst the thousand horse fared back to Cufa with the loot.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then the spies came forwards, and informed him that his brother Ajib had made his escape and had taken refuge with Jaland12 bin Karkar, lord of the city of Oman and land of Al – Yaman; whereupon Gharib cried aloud to his host, “O men, make you ready to march in three days.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In the late 1980s, the Wellcome Trust issued a grant, and Dr. Pritchard and his Nottingham team set up camp on Karkar Island, Papua New Guinea.

    Helminthic Therapy « Isegoria 2008

  • Jinni; “there be such in the sea of al-Karkar127 on the shores whereof dwell a people of the lineage of Noah (on whom be peace!); for their country was not reached by the Deluge and they are cut off there from the other sons of Adam.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Nay,” rejoined the black; “we also are children of Adam, of the lineage of Ham, son of Noah (with whom be peace!), and this sea is known as Al – Karkar.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • When Jawamard heard this, the light in his eyes became darkest night and he drew his sabre and drove at Jamrkan, for he it was, saying, “O thief of the Arabs, wilt thou cut the road for me, who am captain of the host of Jaland bin Karkar and am come to bring Gharib and his men in bond?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Chiefs of thy kith and kin and twenty-thousand horse and fare on before us to the land of Jaland bin Karkar.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Twelve monarchs of the region, led by the kings of Damascus and Israel, united against the growing threat of Assyria, The decisive battle took place at Karkar (in the north of today's Syria).

    Peace with Syria 2006

  • Hazael, with other kings, among them Achab of Israel, in the battle of Karkar.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Karkar, which took place in the same year in which Achab died fighting in the battle of Ramoth Galaad (III Kings, xxii).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

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