Derbend-nâmek or the History of Derbend. 
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Silan- Dagh- now Savalan Qté is a high moun 
situated at a distance of about 13 Engl. miles to the 
called now Gas» Barougk. — 
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such à massacre as cannot be described! °? 
The infidels gradually became victorious, the 
Masulmans were exhausted and the enemy 
cut them off and scattered them. Djerrah 
several times fought personally during the 
battle; at last he became a martyr: his head 
was cut off and fastened to a pillar. They 
massacred the Musulmans so that out of twen- 
ly five thousand only one hundred could es- 
cape. They informed Hishäm of this °*..... 
Then Hishäm wrote a letter to Said (the son 
of Amr-al djershi), and having invested him 
with full authority sent him at the head of 
thirty thousand: men to take revenge for 
Djerrah the son of 4bdullah on the infidels 
of Khazaria. Said came to A4derbijän: here 
be passed to the city of 4rdenden (Arde- 
nuk?)* where he met with some of his 
Musulman friends, who related to him what 
had happened to them there. These also ac- 
companied him and proceeded thence to the 
city of 4khlodz (Akblàt). Here they found a 
great mass of the infidels, wherefore they re- 
mained there some days and scattered them 
and enriched themselves with spail. In every 
tain not far from Ardebil: see L os p- 387. Itis 
N. W. of Ardebil not far from a considerable village 
53 T have omitted here some lines concerning the conversion of Merdan-shah to Islam, his exploits 
and his death, 
54 Some lines are omitted by me here, on account of 
their containing one or two gross errors. Their contents 
are: the Kbhalif, baving received the information, wept for Djerrah &c. the infidels did not cease to continue 
- their invasions, and carried away into captivity Djerra 
h's family, as well as some of the defeated Musulmans. 
The Khazarians coutinued their ravages; took Ærdebil after a loug siege, massacred all the inhabitants and 
violated their women &c. that the Khalif, after having consulted with his ministers resolved to dispatch Saïd 
ta take reveuge on the infidels. — 
58 [ suspect in YU H2y) anserrow:- À think the last © must be meant for ÊR in such case the reading 
will be perfectly good ; for till this day there is a village on the west of Akhlat, called 4rdonk which I read 
Ardenek or the little Arden or Arzen, to distirguish 
it from the great Arden, which now is called Arzeni- 
Roum. — Add. N. Consuit the quotation from Fägkouti in Dr. Dorn’s Nachrichten p. 27. note 4, 
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