Hobson-Jobson

Hobson-Jobson

The 1886 dictionary of words the British Empire borrowed, mangled, and forgot.

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TANA

also: TANNA

n.p. Thāna , a town on the Island of Salsette on the strait ('River of Tana') dividing that island from the mainland and 20 m. N.E. of Bombay, and in the early Middle Ages the seat of a Hindu kingdom of the Konkan (see CONCAN ), as well as a seaport of importance. It is still a small port, and is the chief town of the read more

1020."From Dhár southwards to the river Nerbudda, nine; thence to Mahratdes ... eighteen; thence to Konkan, of which the capital is Tana, on the sea-shore, twenty-five parasangs."—Al-Bi

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