580 A KAZEM-BEG,. 
ds ble eus) 65 pe LESE LS 95 oi je {the peopleof A4rdän. These towns are called Der- 
| Ut pâsh (?). To them he gave eight edifices (fortifica= 
(2) > DJ) op RÈn LS h 9° 03 Ce ce tions?) founded by Anushirvân* He settled: the 
Le RSS “e da PES Een : ob people of Müsel in the town of Derpüsh. — AI] (the 
L Vis J PA RE Cglel inhabitants of) these towns, he ordered to watch 
22 942 0 pl 4 97 dhe> (SE 9° y D 9 by turns, the valleys and the roads. — He built a 
sé dors jp) ons & Jihyios) das >}  ,> [town under the name of Fezidi eh, and filled it 
with ‘his own dependants. He also built another 
CS» 9° te oil US y cb! sus A ; ? |town named Sermekiyeh. Afterwards he built Ma- 
is Je Hilo né) s| ne ps (39 gkatir and Mahregkeh, and in all these towns he 
mt den j ; ut garrisons. — So’ the State of Derbend became 
de h. de re Lhiale E 
LS 99 Dm 0 d= «sus AC D ins flourishing; the infidels had no power to make 
JM ee 5 (el al v dl) OE Ji lex be into it. — The excellency of Babul- 
| .| lbab (so we sometimes find in MSS. isstead-of 
Al abislB 235 LaGe sl ie ee 
(94h) Ge | Dr a LL J a if, "| Babul- Abwäb) was promulgated throughout the 
oi 95 ls Go! ed als guise o He (less world. The tributes were gathered on ‘the an- 
: x Ta inciples. The tribute of Gkaitagk, Ta- 
"| Fa : | a (LS | J] crient prmcip gk, 
qu D RAT AUS ER DETE 4SHR 42 basaräu, Kureh, Gkurah, Akhti and Gkutbeh 
LD) wi o J sl RE Ce pel ELS (45) Ls, (or commonly Kuba d were (also) gathered, as 
DE 18 ; o y s done before. The merits of 
SL y 56) cp boss, 55e SL theyL Were [au 
( _… >) 0 5 > ss eh A Derbend increased and the evil designs of the 
+ sub JL (20) lus Glroñacts were annihilated.» — 
Æ The expression Le? 908 he yo ei Ulgpé ÿ POPPE WU 922 oi» we do not find 
at all in the Berlin version and we do not understand its sense. Besides, the first part of this line wbolly 
contradicts a phrase which immediately follows and that is: LS» 95 0 D pe PE Gi] Je ses “ Àe 
settled the people of Musel, in the town of Derpoush», which also we read in Klaproth’s translation: — 
here by Derpoush is meant a town, and from the preceding passage we understand that all the above men- 
tioned towns were called Perpoush, F : 
{ Now there is an extensive Province of that name, containing about 1580 square farsukhs, or about 
10.500 Russian versts, lying between 65010’ and 67010” East long. (from the meridian of London); and 20030’ 
41940/ northern latitude. The capital of.this province is a small town, containing 645 houses, and lying under 
4192110” N. latitude and 6695’ E. long near the river Gkudyäi. The name of this province and of the 
town is now generally pronounced Gkäba L,s or Ls. but its established orthography is 4$ GÆubbeh. May 
it not be the als of the ancient Geographers? We find also, however, that the town formerly was called 
Gküdyäl, from the name of the river. — For Ækhti see Rem. 8. to Part VI of this work. 
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