Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 479 
Whatever may be the truth — the name now, as many centuries since, expresses that 
part of Persia, which anciently consisted of Media Atropatene, and of à part of 4rmenia. 
Teberi says, that this name ïs given to a country commencing with Hemedän, Abher, Zend- 
gän (now Zengän) and finishing with Derbend of the Khazars. Q? Ulysse 1 CHAR #| 
dp3 see Teber:i, Part V. for KL ,5) olf,s &c. 
Remark 15. page 460 line 10 and 27. J How 
. This name, in the MSS. of Berlin and St. Petersburg, is J He Semander ; it was the an- 
cient name of Tarkhou, to this day the residence of the Shemkhälls. In the copy of Teberi 
that [ have in my possession, the word is J Je which is probably a mistake, but in the 59 
A) it is also Me» which is the best reading. — According to this author, Semender 
was:one of the principal cities of the  Khazars; it abounded in grapes, and the Russians, or 
rather Slavonians, rumed this city. — See the words 39 Us) and J He» in that work. In 
the Mesälikul-memälik, which I have in my possession, we find the same misunderstanding in 
the readmg of Semender. The author says, that there was a city in Khazaria named + which 
was rich in gardens abounding with grapes. This is his description which in many points is 
identic with that of Zbni-Haukal im regard to JHes ; (see Frähn Zbn-Foszlan p. 65.) Ps 
éb Le Je cpl HS ss... > lo y Up éb Ji 5 do ie A et 
ei>L, Gil lol 5 Jolo eme, il Lis übLue jé cp > p)) de juin 9 > l> 
SE Cr 3 LS el LL, Coul> 982 LL) 
… «In Khazaria there is a city called Semid, which bas a great many fruit and flower-gardens; 
they say that it has 40,000 gardens, and that the greater part consists of vineyards. In this. city 
there. are, many Musulmans who have their own mosques. The inhabitants build their houses 
of.wood. Their King is a Jew, and is in relationship with the King of the Khazars». — The 
same description we find in Tchelebi’s geography, referrmg to Js or Je) (see p. 368 of 
that work). Both these accounts apparently show the identity of ds or Jowl with Je ; but 
many other cireumstances evidently prove the existence of two towns under the names of Jus 
and Jé or Ja) which have been confounded by our writers: 1) Katib Tchelebi takes J4e 
to be à principal town of Kbazaria, wholly different from 5 which. he describes separately. 
2) Though the author of Mesälik, and that of Djehan-numé make no mention, whether Jam 
and Je were different towns, yet when we take into consideration the accounts of these same 
authors as to the distances between the towns and cities of the Khazers and Daghistän, (see 
