Teb, El

See El Teb. Tebe a (tā-bes'sä). A town in the province of Const an tine, Algeria, 108 miles southeast of Constant i on: the ancient There ste. It has important Roman antiquities, including: (a) A Roman ba silica, in plan 71 by 212 feet, with nave and two aisles, and a semicircular apse at the further end. The basilica is preceded by an atrium, or open court, surrounded by arcades. The building stands in a walled inclosure of later date, strengthened by towersge The structure is a igned to the beginning of the 2d century A. D., and though it served long as a Christian church, underwent but little alteration. (b) A temple of Jupiter: a prostyle, tetrastyle, Corinthian building, measuring 26 by 45 feet, on a basement 12 feet high, with a fine flight of steps in front. (c) A triumphal arch of Car a call a: a four-way arch like that of Janus Quadrifrons at Rome and the Roman Tripolis shown by inscriptions to have been for chat about 211 A. D. Tebeth (te-bet'). [Heb.; in A yrian tebetu , interpreted to signify 'the muddy month.'] The tenth ecclesiastical and the fourth civil month in the Hebrew year, corresponding to February March (Esther ii. 16). Tebris, or Tebriz. See Tabriz . Teche (tesh), Bayou. A river in southern Louisiana which flows into the lower Atchafalaya. Length, about 175 miles; navigable to St. Martinsville. Teck (tek). A small medieval duchy in Swabia, now belonging to Würtemberg. Tecpan (tāk-pän'). An old province of Mexico, established by More los in 1811 as a revolutionary measure, but retained after the independence. It corresponded, nearly, to the state of Guerrero, which was formed from it in 1847. Tecpanecs. See Tepanecs . Tecumseh (te-kum'se). Born near the site of Springfield, Ohio, about 1768: killed in the battle of the Thames, Canada, Oct. 5, 1813. A chief of the Shawnee Indians. He aided his brother ("the Prophet") in his attempt to unite the western Indians against the whites, and was an important ally of the British in the War of 1812. He served at the Raisin River and at Maguaga; commanded an Indian contingent at the siege of Fort Meigs; and commanded the right wing at the battle of the Thames. Tecumseh. A town in Lenawee County, Michigan, situated on the Raisin River 41 miles west-southwest of Detroit. Population (1890), 2,310. Tecumseh. An iron-clad ve el, a single-turreted monitor, of the United States navy. It was one of Admiral Farragut's fleet in the attack on Mobile, Alabama, commanded by Captain Craven, and was sunk by a torpedo in Mobile Bay Aug. 5, 1864. Tecunas. See Tucunas and Jumanas . Tedding ton (ted'ing-ton). A village in Middle sex, England, situated near the Thames 12 miles west-southwest of London. Population (1891), 10,025. Te Deum (tē dē'um). [So called from the first words, " Te Deum laudamus," 'Thee, God, we praise. An ancient hymn, in the form of a psalm, sung at matins or morning prayer in the Roman Catholic and in the Anglican churches, and also separately as a service of thanksgiving on special occasions. The Te Deum is first men IMG:content-1100.png:[blocks in formation] tioned early in the 6th century. Its authorship is popu- Tehama (tā-hä'mä). A comparatively low-lying larly attributed to St. Ambrose and St. Augustine, but it region on the western coast of Arabia. tury, probably during a umed the Arian nearly and its present Maced on i an form in controversies, the 4th cen- Teheran (teh-e-rän'), or Tehran (teh-rän'). though in substance it seems to be still older, St. Cyprian in A. D. 252 using words closely similar to the seventh, eighth, and ninth verses, and several of the latter verses ("Day by day," etc.) agreeing with part of an ancient Greek hymn, preserved in the Alexandrine Codex, the be ginning of which is a form of the Gloria in Excels is. Originally it was modeled on the preface and great interce ion of a primitive liturgy, probably African, of the type of the liturgy of St. James. Also, more fully, Te Deum Laudamus . Tees (tēz). A river in northern England which forms the boundary between York and Durham. It flows into the North Sea. Length, 70 miles; navigable for small ve els to Stock ton. Teewah. See Tigua . Teffé (tef-fa'). A southern tributary of the Amazon, which it joins about long. 64° 40′ W. Teffé, formerly Ega (a'gä). A town of the state of Amazon as, Brazil, on a lake at the mouth of the river Teffé. It was originally a Jesuit mi ion, and is now the chief commercial town between Manaos and Tabatinga. Population, about 8,000. Tegea (tējē-ä). [Gr. Τεγέα.] In ancient geography, a city in Arcadia, Greece, in lat. 37° 28′ N., long. 22° 26′ E. It fought in the battle of Platæa 479 B. C., and sided with Sparta in the Peloponnesian and Corin thian wars; was later a member of the Arcadian Confeder fought against Sparta at Mantinea 362 B. C.; and was a member of the Ætolian and Achæan leagues. It contained a famous temple of Athene Alea, burned about 394 B. C., and restored by Scopas. It was a Doric peripteros of 6 by 13 columns, measuring 72 by 154 feet. The columns within the cella were Ionic and Corinthian. The sculptures of the eastern pediment represented the slaying of the Calydonian boar; those of the western, the combat of Telephus and Achilles. Tegel (tā'gel). A village and popular resort, situated on the Tegeler See 7 miles northwest of Berlin. Tegernsee (ta'gern-zā). A lake in Upper Bavaria, situated near the Alps 29 miles south of Munich: noted for its beautiful scenery. Its outlet is by the Mangfall to the Inn. Length, nearly 4 miles. Elevation 2,400 feet. Tegetthoff (te'get-hof), Baron Wilhelm von. Born at Marburg, Styria, Dec. 23, 1827: died at Vienna, April 7, 1871. An Austrian admiral. He commanded the Austrian contingent in the allied naval victory over the Danes near Helgoland May 9, 1864; and is especially noted for his victory ne near Li a over the Italian fleet under Persano, July 20, 1866. Tegner (teng-nar'), Esaias. Born in Kyrkerud, in Wermland, Sweden, Nov. 13, 1782: died at Wexiö, Nov. 2, 1846. A Swedish poet. He was the son of a clergyman: both parents were from the peas ant cla . He was in his tenth year when his father died and left the family in extremely poor circumstances. Friends enabled him to obtain his early education, and in 1799 he went as a student to Lund. The following year, from lack of means to continue his studies, he became a tutor in Småland, but subsequently returned to Lund, where he finally took his examination in 1802. In 1803 he was appointed docent in esthetics; ten years later he was made profe or of Greek and prebendary. In 1824 he was elected bishop of Wexiö. Subsequently he was afflicted with a hereditary mental disease, and from the autumn of 1840 until the following spring he was in an asylum in Schleswig. He then resumed the duties of his office, but never recovered his health. His literary career began in 1808 with the "Krig ång för det Skånska landtvärnet" ("War Song for the Militia of Scania"). In 1811 he was awarded the prize of the Academy for the long poem "Svea" (the poetical name of Sweden). The idyl "Nattvardsbarnen" ("The Children of the Lord's Supper") appeared in 1820; this was followed two years later by the narrative poem "Axel." In 1825 appeared in its complete form the cycle of romances, based upon the Old Norse saga of the same name, the "Frithjofs Saga," his most celebrated work and one of the most famous in Scand in avian literature. He wrote numerous shorter poems, among them "KarlXII." ("Charles XII.") and "Sång til solen" ("Hymn to the Sun"). The longer poems "Gerda" and "Krowbruden" were left unfinished. His last poem, written a short time before his death, is "Afsked til min lyra" ("Farewell to My Lyre"). He was the principal poet of the so-called Gothic school. His collected works were published at Stockholm, 1876, in 2 vols. His posthumous works appeared at Stockholm, 1873-74, in 3 vols. Tegnum (teg'num). See the extract. His [Galen's] greatest medical works were the treatise, in seventeen books, "on the use of the parts of the human body"; the e ay “on the art of medicine," which was the text-book and chief subject of examination for medical The capital of Persia, situated about lat. 35° 41' N., long. 51° 25′ E. It became the royal residence about the end of the 18th century. Population, estimated, 210,000. Tehri (teh-re'). A native state in Bundelkhaná, India, India, intersected by lat. 25° N., long. 79° E. Area, about 2,000 square miles. Population Are (1881), 311,514. Tehua. See Tewa . Tehuacan (tā-wä-kän'). A town in the state of Puebla, Mexico, 125 miles east-southeast of Mexico. Population (1894), 6,223. Tehuantepec (tā-wän-ta-pek'). A town in the southeastern part of the state of Oajaca, Mexico, on the Tehuantepec River, 13 miles from its mouth in the Pacific. It was an ancient city, and at one time the capital of the Zapotec Indians; but, accord- ing to tradition, it existed before their time, having been settled by a mythical race, the Huabi, who are said to have come from the south by sea. At the time of the Spanish conquest it belonged to a branch of the Zapotecs; its chief or "king," Cociyopu, submitted to the Spaniards in 1522. Population (1894), 6,674. Tehuantepec, Gulf of. An arm of the Pacific Ocean, on the southern coast of Mexico at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Tehuantepec, Isthmus of. An isthmus in southeastern Mexico, between the Bay of Cam- pec he on the north and the Gulf of Tehuante- pec on the south. Width at the narrowest part, about 120 miles. The mountain lands are here some- what interrupted, and there are several pa es below 900 feet. A railway cro es it, and a canal and a ship-railway have been projected.