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“EXTRACT FROM THE WORK OF TEBERI; PART Vi; CHAP. 99; REFERRING 
TO THE EVENTS OF THE YEARS 105—105 OF THE HIDJRET. 
THE CHAPTER IS ENTITLED: 
di fre she ile Die Description of the wars with the 
q É ; rebels of Armenia «!. 
ob: GJÈS à ie ë. de SG y pl 3) J Historians say, that when Djerrah reached 
2 B: Armenia“* the infidels of Khazaria were in- 
(œb D 9 obus ENST) Se av 5E formed of it. They were alarmed and took 
de adiete 3 : .[to flight and went down to the fortress of 
so ai 4é axesl 4 el Dhoës> age als Béb_ (Babul-abwab?), Djerrah, having ar- 
‘ # Cd . . . 45 . 
Keys bls sbnshtés 505 og) rived at the City of 4rmenieh “*, remained there 
& bone SES SE s & three days; whence he proceeded to a place 
(ge y] il Os JE «SX 950» |named Rudbdr ** where he halted. Not a man 
—|of the infidels remained there .... He could 
af 0,15» sol, des 05 jL555 05 pd not find any person, either in Babul-abwab 
| ji or in Rudbar*5, Whereever there had been 
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41 Read, remark 1 to Part IV of our work. 
42 At.the end of the 54 chapter the author makes mention, of this general’s being appointed by the Khai 
lif Fezid on an expedition, to Armenia against the Khazars, > bts 
48: 4dd. Ni An Dr. Dorn’$ quotation (Nachrichten &c: page 66.) we find E Barda’. — Instead Per 
of our text, which I read er there we, read lp] SL . 
44 Add. N. We know a town on the Araxes to the S. E. of Nakhichevan, which is commonly called Ordubäd. 
But. Bal’ami - makestit- the name of: à valley and'intthe Djaghatai translation of this passage (Dr. Doru’s 
Nachrichten &c2 pages 167 — 1M:)it is said that this valley was at a distance of 2 miles from Babul-abwab. 
45 Something must be omitted hereabout in our MS.; I-have therefore marked the defect with, some dots. 
Add. N. Comparing this passage of our text with Dr. Dorn’s quotation (Nachrichten &c. page 67.) we find 
an omission of 42 lines, in my M$. of the Turkish version of Teberi. I will put here before iny readers the 
literal translation of these lines which are indeed very interesting in regard to the-narrative of the Dérbend: 
nami meh ‘upon the subject, and which make up the sense of the;whole passage. We shall, begin a little before: 
Djerrah directed his army, and arrived in Barda’; here he staid for some days (in our text: for fhree, days) 
