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Nov 28, 2009
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Ar•be•la



Pronunciation: (är-bē'lu), [key]
n.
an ancient city of Assyria, E of the Tigris, on the site of modern Erbil: headquarters of Darius III before his defeat by Alexander the Great at Gaugamela 331 b.c.

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