105. The obscure villages of the inland country are
irrecoverably lost; nor can we name the field of battle
where Julian fell: but M. d'Anville has demonstrated the
precise situation of Sumere, Carche, and Dura, along the
banks of the Tigris (Geographie Ancienne, tom. ii. p. 248;
l'Euphrate et le Tigre, p. 95, 97). In the ninth century,
Sumere, or Samara, became, with a slight change of name, the
royal residence of the khalifs of the house of Abbas.