482 A KAZEM-BEG, 
polis, a capital town, and sometimes a territory and a part of the neighbouring country taken 
and joined to a kingdom. The word has been used in both senses in this work: In one place 
our author says ob otsse Li 0 y el Lis us all LES (0 pps Jo > K,» 
sol GE «sb SL Y,) Ets «if the Khazars should take possession of Derbend, then 
without doubt all the countries of Aderbijan and Fârs with their territories shall fall under 
their government ». — In another place he says €ël 5 0 5 ei gl Je ro «sb SAS UI 2 È 9 
él ann) « Anushirvän (returned) to his metropolis Medäyen, where he reposed himself &c. » 
Here we have preferred the expression of being under the government, because we take Ihran 
for a whole district. 
In the MS. in my possession Ihrän sometimes is stated to be a fortress sometimes a 
town, but in those of Berlin and Paris the names é oLel and Ko) are confounded; in 
one place it is saïd that Jhran was the same as Gulbäkh, and in another, that Gulbäkh was 
the same as Ænderay (see rem. 27); m a third, Ænderay the same as Balkh, and in à fourth 
that Gulbdkh was the governor of /hrun, as Anderay was the governor of Balkh.. The con- 
fusion is still worse in the version of St. Petersburg. But, from the whole series of our inves- 
tigations we may conclude, that /hran, Belkh and Anderay, were three primitive towns or 
fortresses, whick afterwards received the names of their governors, as, it appears, was the cus- 
tom of that time; and that Gulbdkh, being a powerful chief both of Zhran and Anderay, 
gave his name to them both, in the same manner as Ænderay (another Anderay a governor of 
Balkh) gave his name to Balkh; also that the name of Zhrdn was extended for a like reason 
to a whole district on the river Ghkoë-sou. — In the MS. of Paris (see Nouveau Journal Asiat. 
for, 1829. p. 445.) as regards the explanation of Thran, we find something that tends tu satisfy 
our. curiosity on this subject, but which is wantinge, both, in the MS. of Berlin and, in! that 
which I possess. — It is there stated that Iran was the same as what is now called je pas) «le 
Séhibus-serir, which the Arabs otherwise named did) Fe Khätemul-djibâl. The, same idea 
we gather from the confused text of the St. Petersburg version LH we read: Lux oH)s } 
ss üls) LS (read alelisL) aeli>L Los] «52 pl sl cÆ oh i. e. Jsfendiar, 
having erected a throne of Gold in Ibran, resided there; aud the kingdom of this climate is 
named the government of Ihran. — ‘l'aking this for granted we may form a correct idea of the 
extent, and even of the boundaries of Ihran from the explanation of the word pl Lale 
or simply» as illustrated in all ancient geographers. The result of all that has been written 
concerning #y we may find in Tchelebi, who says, that the Serir of the ancient geographers 
was the Déghistän of his time, which, according to his account, was limited, on the west, by 
the country of the Zcherkesses; on the south: hy the Georgia of that time; on the east, by the 
Caspian Sea, and on the north by Khazatia; and which, was formerly called Jp 7e ( see 
L Up, 401, and 368: read alsoi-our remark 28 to this part). — But there where Tran and 
Gulbäkh axe spoken of as separate cities (see p. 5, 6. of our translation of the text) we must 
