Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 
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and himself with his army took the direction 
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Omar having heard of Bekir’s expedition 
Derbend, said: «Bekir must have assistance ;» 
therefore he wrote to Suragkeh, the son of 
Abdur-Rehman, a letter intimating that he 
should go by the way of Ahwaz to Derbend 
and assist Bekir. — When Omar’s letter ar- 
rived, Surdgkeh took with him Hazifeh and 
several other Arabian warriors, and at the 
head of the army of Basreh, directed his way 
toward Derbend in order to assist Bekür. From 
another pass came Hebib, the son of Musli- 
meh$ to be ready to aid Bekir in case of 
need. None of the princes of those quarters 
made war: they all yielded by capitulation. But 
they said: «you have before you two power- 
ful enemies, the Tartars ? and the Khazars: it 
is very difficult to make war with these two 
enemies; for the roads leading to them are 
impenctrable, so that none of the princes of 
these quarters can make war with them. Our 
stipulation with you shall be founded on the 
following grounds: you shall neither demand 
[from us tribute nor personal impost; we will 
$ Derbend meaning a difficult passage in general, exactly in the same manner as the Arabic bb, we should 
not take it always for Babul-abwäb which in Teberi is sometimes distinguished by the appellation of the 
passage of the Khazars — Khizr-Derbendi; consult Remark 10. to Part [. — Concerning Hebib see Remark 3 
to Part IL of this work; also read hereafter note 19. 
7 The use of this word JL 
the hypothesis of Father Hyacinth, who asserts that 
> in ancjent authors, among many other circumstances, will wholly destroy 
the word Tartar of Tutar is the corruption of Tatan 
which became known after the inundation of Asia by the Mongol trihes or Djenghizides &c. See in this learned 
father’s memorials on Mongolia, a separate section entitled: answer to the question, who were the Tartars 
(8anuckn o Mosrouiu; Prmenie sonpoca: . Kmo-@ñau Tamapu?). — By the Tartars are here meant the Turks 
(see the note 14, hereafter). — Ædd. N. In the Persian and Djaghatai translations of Teberi (Nachrichten &c. 
pp: 56— 106) instead of y D we find U“2J which is repeated in two places. Besidés we read there that 
Suragkeh arrived first in Babul-abwab, where he made a treaty of peace with its prince, called Mir 
(in another MS, Je). Read the note 41. 
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