AHAZ

king of Judah (741-c. 724 B.C.); Jerusalem being besieged, he called in aid of king of As syria, who forced him to do homage and pay tribute. Persia. Upon the abdication of his father, Mohammed Ali as Shab in 1909, he succeeded to the throne, but for — some years, Owing to his extreme youth, did not take any part in his country’s government, to the extent to which his prescribed powers would — permit him, under the changed pol it- — ical conditions that have prevailed in Persia of late years. He was crowned in > 1914, when in his sixteenth year, rei aa without ruling, the administration g controlled by the Persian cabinet, He visited European countries, including France, in 1920. sereals, indigo, Pop. 840,000. City (19° 7’ N., 74° 45’ E.),; mi ion station; carpets, Saris (women’s dre es), copper and bra ve els. During Great War an internment camp for Germans was about 1m, E. Pop. 45,000. E.), Bahaw-alpur State, India. Pop. c. 30,000. AI (Heb., heap), a Can a an it ish city E. of Bethel. Abraham pitched his tent between Bethel and Ai (Gen. xii. and xiii.), but the city is better known for its capture by Joshua in later times (Joshua vii. and viii.). Its ruins existed in the time of Eusebius and Jerome, but none are now to be found.