516 A KAZEM-BEG, 
dul-melik on the throne of the Khalifate; after which he sent Djerrah on an expedition against 
the Khazars. (See Teberi Vol. 3. Part 6. the articles cle JR DTA til Cp DR Je 5 
EU De ep Uilyes de; also Lol) dS9 y v. III. article os, K plsls He Ale JE 
Upon this ground I have added to our translation in à parenthesis Fezid the son of. — The 
reading of our text then should be «> SU] ue AR sl Je cle HD: Css oLel 
bol J eb o JS Ms ue Qlor 
In Klaproth’s translation the irruption of the Khazars into Æderbidjan and Irak is attri- 
buted to the time of Soliman; in the MS. of St. Petersburg, as in ours, the name of this Kha- 
lif is omitted. Though we have no reason to contradict the assertion of the Berlin MS. (for the 
irruption of the Khazarians might, and indeed must, have taken place at the close of the reign 
of Soliman which lasted but 2 years and 8 months, and must further have continued till Fezids 
reign), yet, as we have just noticed, it was Yezid, and not Soleiman, who ordered the expe- 
dition to be sent under the command of Djerräh soon after having heard of the irruption already 
* made by the Khazars, against whom his predecessor Omar had already sent another. 
Remark 12. page 507. 
Neither in Klaproth'’s translation, nor in the MSS. of the Imperial Library of St. Peters- 
burg, of which L bave a copy, is there anything saïd concerning the irruptions of the Khazarian 
troops to the frontiers of Rüm or of Greece. Our author here points out two routes or passages, 
through which the Khazarians made their incursions. The one he distinctly mentions to have 
been the western passage of Derbend, which is generally called, as in our MS. #3» aals CA JE 
or Zhe neck of the citadel ï. e. the eastern limits of the present Zubasaran, not very far from 
the citadel of Derbend, perhaps through the broken parts of the rampart to which we have re- 
ferred the reader in our conjecture in the 9t* remark to this part of the Derbend-nâmeh. (See 
also rem. 8 to Part 1.) Through this passage the author supposes the Khazarians to have pas- 
sed, by the flatter parts of Daghistan, which are situated between the ridges of the Caucasus 
and the Caspian Sea, and which commence just by the south wall of Derbend, where they are 
very narrow, but gradually extend themselves till at last they reach the breadth of about 8 far- 
sakhs in the Mahäl of Shabrän and Mushkour, or Mushkoureh. — The other route though not 
exactly pointed out in the text, may be supposed to have been through the western parts of 
Legzistun, towards the place where the Musuimans had made conquests in Armenia &c. 
We should have committed a mistake perhaps, had we considered it to be the meaning of 
our text, that the Khazarian troops made irruptions agaïnst the Romans — as we could find no 
historical fact of the kind in the European authors referring to the epoch — but it may at 
least be admissible to suppose, that the author meant the incursions of the Khazars into the 
countries already invaded by the Musulmans, ï. e. in one direction into Æderbijan, and in ano- 
ther into some western or northwestern parts of it, which were bounded by the territories of 
the Romans or Greeks. 
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