Arbela

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 374

Arbela, now Erbil or Arbil, a small town of Assyria, east from Mosul, famous as having given name to the battle in which Alexander finally defeated Darius, 331 B.C. The battle was really fought near Gaugamela (the 'camel's house'), to the NW. of Arbela.

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