Edom, or Idumæa, a mountainous but not unfertile country, comprising the S. of Judæa and part of the N. of Arabia Petræa, 100 m. long by 20 m. broad, peopled originally by the descendants of Esau, who were ruled by “dukes,” and were bitterly hostile to the Jews.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Edmund Ironside * Edred