Derbend-nâmeh or -the History of Derbend. 483 
consider the second as Ændrey, or Anderay or Balkh, and the first as the original fortress or 
town, whose name, as Î have mentioned above, was applied to a whole district. — Notwithstanding 
all this, there still exists to the N. or NW. of Derbend, a village bearing the name of Gulpakh, 
which may indeed be that part of Ihran which, to this day, has preserved the ance nt general - 
name of ïts governor. On the very shores of the Gkoï-sou, not far from the ruins of the an- 
cient Æemry (see above remark 2.) there is still a village bearing the name of Trgana, which 
may be a corruption of Ihran. . 
Remark 20. page 460 line {fand 28. Pen CTP 
According to the words of our author, this was an ancient fortress, upon whose ruins 
stands the present Gkizler. — In the Berlin MS., as we may judge by Klaproth’s transla- 
tion, this name is not mentioned. In the St. Petersburg version we find it Srékhäb ob, 
explaned by the name ob 55 Gkizil-yar, which in common reading, is Gkizler and whose 
significations: the Golden shore explains the etymology of both names‘, for tradition pretends 
that near Gkizler there. were mines of gold as ïs stated in the version of St. Petersburg: 
SH) hs Qivee Dé oél Ji iume J55 (i. e. omsl)ous,sb EL L J;s 
« There was a mine of gold near Gkizil-yar, and a mine of silver at the springs of Zerek ». 
Thus we find an identity ‘of meaning between the two words ER and 5b Ja, both of which 
may signify red water *. 
Remark 21. page 460 Iine 11 and 29. AE 
Kitchi is the abbreviation of Kitchik, little, and Oulé, that of Oulûgh, great; thus the 
little majar and the great majar, are the names of two towns derived probably from the name of 
theïr inhabitants. This name is now unknown in Déghistän ; but towards the N. W. of this country, 
beyond  Kabarda there still exists. a small town called Majari mentioned in the history of 
Russia (Ilosbcrsoganie o Pocciu, Ka. III. No. 588.) It is situated on the right bank of the 
Küma, to the north of Georgievsk, which in the beginning of the XIV century, as asserted by 
Ibni- Batüteh (see the translation of this work, London 1829, p. 76) was a large and handsome 
city. [ believe that this name, majar, among many other appellations of the Turkish races, 
who, during the V. VE. and VIT. centuries, made continual irruptions into the northern and 
western parts of the Caspian Sea, was applied in consequence to different towns and places oc- 
cupied by the race of that name. (Consult. Deguignes Hist. gen. des Huns. T. IL. p. 509 &c.) 
— 
{ Read the following note. 
4 In the Turkish language J;s means red; but in the dialect of Aderbidjan it signifies gold (which in 
Turkish and Tartar is Altin Ü #))). The word ne Yar signifies sometimes deep water; sometimes the shore 
of a river. In this way Gkisil- yar may signify at once golden shore and red water. The last is a verbal trans- 
lation of the persian expression ot Surkhâb. — 
