Hillah, or HILLA, a town of Turkey in Asia, on the river Euphrates, 60 miles S. of Bagdad, on the site of Babylon, out of the ruins of which it was built about 1100 A.D. Tanning and the manufacture of silk, cottons, and woollens are carried on. The population fluctuates between 7000 and 15,000.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 714
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