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Bagistan

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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in Babylonian mythology, was a mountain in Media sacred to Jupiter. Semiramis is said to have had her image, with that of one thousand of her warriors, engraved in the same. It is uncertain where Bagistan is to be found, but it is surmised that it lay between Kermanshah and Hamadan.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Bagistan'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​b/bagistan.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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