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The site of On, or Heliopolis, is near Cairo. There was another city in Upper Egypt called An by the Egyptians, but Hermonthis by the Greeks.
ONEIDAS, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY.
O'NEILS, The wars and the flight of the.
See IRELAND: A. D. 1559-1603; and 1607-1611.
ONONDAGAS, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY.
ONTARIO: The Name.
See OHIO: THE NAME.
ONTARIO, Lake, The Discovery of.
See CANADA: A. D. 1611-1616.
ONTARIO, The province.
The western division of Canada, formerly called Upper Canada, received the name of Ontario when the Confederation of the Dominion of Canada was formed.
See CANADA: A. D. 1867.
ONTARIO SCHOOL SYSTEM.
See EDUCATION, MODERN: AMERICA: A. D. 1844-1876.
OODEYPOOR.
See RAJPOOTS.
OPEQUAN CREEK, OR WINCHESTER, Battle of.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1864 (AUGUST-OCTOBER: VIRGINIA).
OPHIR, Land of.
The geographical situation of the land called Ophir in the Bible has been the subject of much controversy. Many recent historians accept, as "conclusively demonstrated," the opinion reached by Lassen in his Indische Alterthumskunde, that the true Ophir of antiquity was the country of Abhira, near the mouths of the Indus, not far from the present province of Guzerat. But some who accept Abhira as being the original Ophir conjecture that the name was extended in use to southern Arabia, where the products of the Indian Ophir were marketed.
OPIUM WAR, The.
See CHINA: A. D. 1839-1842.
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OPORTO: Early history. Its name given to Portugal.
See PORTUGAL: EARLY HISTORY.
OPORTO: A. D. 1832. Siege by Dom Miguel.
See PORTUGAL: A. D. 1824-1889.
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OPPIAN LAW, The.
A law passed at Rome during the second Punic War (3d century, B. C.), forbidding any woman to wear a gay–colored dress, or more than half an ounce of gold ornament, and prohibiting the use of a car drawn by horses within a mile of any city or town. It was repealed B. C. 194.
_H. G. Liddell, History of Rome, book 4, chapter 3 (volume 1)._
ALSO IN: _R. F. Horton, History of the Romans,