< Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HILLAH, or HILLA, a town of Turkey in Asia; on the Euphrates river, 60 miles S. of Bagdad, near the ruins of Babylon, out of which it is built. Tanning and the manufacture of silk, cotton, and woolens are carried on.
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