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WEST, a suburb of East London, and a parliamentary and county borough of Essex, England, on the Thames, opposite Greenwich. Pop. 133, 500. It is a busy industrial parish, and has silk printing, ship-building, dis and chemical manufactures. distilling, situated at the N. base of Mount Elwend, HAMADAN (hä-mä-dän'), a town of situated at the N. base of Mount Elwend, 160 miles W. S. W. of Teheran. It contains Avicenna's tomb, and others affirmed to be those of Mordecai and Esther. Being the center of converging routes from Bagdad, Erivan, Teheran, and Ispahan, it is the seat of a large transit trade; and it carries on extensive manufactures of leather, and in a less egree of coarse carpets and woolen and cotton fabrics. Hamadan is generally believed to occupy the site of the Median ECBATANA (q. v.). Pop. between 30,000 and 40,000.
HAMAN (hā'man), Ahasuerus, King of Persia. In order to revenge himself on Mordecai the Jew, Jews in the kingdom; but in the provia favorite of Jews in the kingdom; but in the providence of God he was thwarted by Esther, fell into disgrace with the king, and wrought his own ruin and the upbuilding of the Jews, B. C. about 485.