Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 489 
| Remark 32. page 462 line 4 and 19. gll.s — LS , 
1) Gkaïtägk. — Those parts of,the :mountains and vallies situated between the Pro- 
vince of Tone a part of Zabaseran, the lands of Gkazi- Gkumükh and the dominions of 
the Shamkhäl of Tarkhü, are since many centuries called by the name of Gkaitagh. This 
country, until the present ceutury, was governed by a Prince bearing the title of Usmi, but 
the greater part of it, having 1ô$t"is-former indépendence by being subdued by Russia, the power 
and title of Usmi by degrees was put an end to, in consequence of some circumstances which, took 
place after the rebellion of Æ4dil-usmi, the last Prince of that country. In former ages Gkaïtagh 
ue its name to ‘all the mountains surrounding the country; so much so, that once'the appel- 
Étron all Ja was à general name for almost all Daghistän (see ob p. 402) — 
This country is divided into two parts: the lower, and the upper Gkairagh;: the latter 
bearing the name of Gkara-Ghkaitagh , or the Black Gkaïitagh. Both these Gkaitaghs, when: go- 
verned by Usmies, included a mountainous part of Daghistän, having in length about 9 and in 
breadth about 6 geographical miles: The part now ide the government of Russia. is disided 
into 10 Mehüls, or cantons, forming in all about 10400 households£. 
112) Kubetchi is now numbered among the villages of the fourth canton, called Gkank. — 
Our author says ;'that, « Anushirvän settled this people in the country of Gkaïtagh and in the 
upper parts of it, and that in ancient times they were named Zireh-gherän (the plur. number of 
Zireh=gher ; a Persian word, meaning & maker of coats-of-arms) which being translated into 
the Turkish language, was changed into 2 ns which has exactly the same signification). 
“rep ent reads : Lou sxsoneously are trauslating, it des orfévres. In the MS of 
als D which I possess, as well as in the Las il, we find VS undoubtedly 
a corruption of OS 0 5 which might be copied first thus os 5, afterwards OL 5 and 
at last UK 5. In the geography of ve AE , printed at Constantinople in 1145 of the Hij- 
ret, or AD, 1732 we find Este which is a manifest typographical mistake for, us, It is there 
said Ge le 35 0 pme 0 Jge2e fes be nes JD pRè fl ds GSle oJl af > a) 5 Gus 
Ji) cr CE CE &lle JS Us tes re Gkaïtagh is a country whose capital is 
Guntchi (Kubetchi). Guntchi (Kubetchr) is à ‘large, cultivated, and famous town, possessing 
many learned and pious men. The ini pay much attention and respect to the learned. 
(see Lobs p..#01.). : 
The inhabitants of this villagé are to this day famous for fee great skïll in making arms, 
and every kind of instruments, and, what is remarkable, pretend to be the descendants of à 
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sea the Ægean sea, because that country and its islands abounded in goats — why then cm we not take it 
for granted, that Goi, Gkhion, which means sheep, from their abundance in those quarters, could as 
well give the name to a river or a town? 
t Reckouing in every household about 3 persons of male sex (as it is generally done in Caucase), the num- 
ber of the inhabitants will not rise above 30,000 men. See the note to the following remark. 
