Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 527 
be seen in the time of the author: J? pole Us absent sl JL su als af o> à codes ans 
In the same place, in Klaproth’s translation, we find Æiszn JS which is taken for Gkayeh- 
kend itself. This destroys the supposition of Klaproth, which we had occasion to observe re- 
garding the identity of Gkayeh-kend with the fortress of Jettin-Djinaber (See Part I. Rem. 27- 
and Part II, Remkra 12). —  T'eberi also makes mention of a fortress bearing the name 
of çy#e> near which Djerrâh encountered ÂVaryjil, the son of the Khaghan, and which was si- 
tuated near the fortress of Ferghou #».° But in our MS. of the Derbend-nâmeh-we do not find 
any name like {y#2, (y or {y4 neither do I know any fortification or place in Daghistan 
which to this day might bear a similar name. Whether the word {y2> Hisn, meaning im the 
Arabic a fortress, might become a proper name for Gkayeh-kend or any other fortification near 
it, just as the name Ghayeh-kend (as we have mentioned above Part I. Rem. 27.) might be 
applied, by its signification (mount-burgh), to any town or place situated in the mountaîns; or 
Dee of the eastern Geographers might be a corruption of Oszin (now Oszin-kent) a village 
not far mdeed from Gkayé-kend — we cannot afürm. In D’Ohsson'’s des peuples du Caucase 
we find {y#2> and (pHes See there p. 57. 
Remark 5. page 517. 
In Klaproth's translation and in the St. Petersburg MS. we find oh) or the Princes 
of the Lezghies, which makes no difference whatever. 
Remark 6. page 517 RAS 
In the MS. of Berlin we find Che de 9» which the learned translator otherwise reads Bo- 
kor - Sabas. In the MS. of St. Petersburg there stands Hé) cle SJ Ariinsh, the son 
of Sapäs. In our copy we have cales Saiati. — As to the MS. of Berlin, I should rather think 
that the word Gp which the translator imagines to be a proper name, must be used instead 
of Ag 37 which means the chief of (referring the ($S to the preceeding al or Sy 2). 
€ Tam disposed to think that it was Tarkhou Ep of this day. The figure JR by changing the place of 
the two dots which we find under the initial letter 2 i, e. by placing them above it, will be read Terghou, 
which I suppose to be the Tarkhou of the present time, In Zbni-a’asam we find a town to the north of Der- 
bend, in Khazaria, under the name of JE» which may be the same, But as we are told that the Tarkhou, 
of the present day, in ancient times was named Semender (See Part I. Rem. 14.) and since wé do not know 
when the name Tarkhou became known in the east, we cannot affirm our conjecture. In D’Ohsson we read 
Bey and JS. — See des peuples du Caucase p. 57. 
