644 A4 KAZEM-BEG, 
(ue) Ju ouf eu) Er (D Heu) JJ%| subdued:it: then be went and- took Shemder 
| -| (Semander ?), then the country of Send (Se- 
AH! mend ?), where the king of the Khazars re- 
à. sui ne psrrts) 7|sided ®, then the country of Sigklabs. They 
SH. gros Ji 5E éb fe] sf lue) say that in that country there were twenty 
said je ELLE fes 0 LY, | thousand infidels; Mervan subdued that coun- 
sl oHlyle der PE Ÿ try ©. — The Khagkan had a warlike gene- 
able af Elo 45 (es lus GB 5s ral-called Hezar: Tarkhün; he came with forty 
thousand warriors to encounter Meredn. This 
latter also chose one of his brave generals 
with forty thousand men, and sent him 
to meet the enemy. The two armies met; 
db. g ss, Je ,buël e,ll Hazar - Tarkhan was killed and. his . army 
oPE Fur mn 4 _[dispersed and massacred. The Khaghan, on 
Lis al sub boule) ésuif jf hearing: this, -vept: and -wore mourning 7. 
sole NT «sl af les ao 
OS lil 9 Use 95 «5? Use «so ail &s) 
5% Consult Remark 15 10 Part I. of this work. — 4{d4d. N. Read also the translation of Bal’ami’s text of * 
Teberi at the end of the following note 70. 
70 This place in our text is ambiguous and dark, we could not make out the proper reading of the 
phrase which we put in a parenthesis { ]. 
Add. N. AI this passage of our text considerably differs from that of the Persian and Djaghatai transla- 
tions placed by Dr. Dorn in his Nachrichten über die Chasaren &c. IL will pat here before my readers’ the 
translation of the corresponding part of the Persian quotation which is very right and answers our pur- 
pose IL will begin from the place where it is spoken of Mervan being sent by Hisham instead of Sa’id to 
Aderbidjau and continue till Mervan’s battle with the Tarkhan, all which in our text is not so exact and satis- 
factor ÿ..— “Mérvân ‘came out, at the head of one hundred and twenty thousand warriors, from Syria ard ad= 
vanced towards Armenia. Having arrived here he encamped in a place called Kesäl, near Berdx (In 
anotbeï. MS, it #sisaid; at the distance of 40 Fersangs from Berda” and of 20 Fersangs fronr Aemlis; the säme 
we read in the Djaghatai translation) and opened the war. The result was that all the princes of Armenia 
submitted themselves and.all ‘Armenia was subdued. Then. he (Mervân) wrote an order that the army which 
was in Babul-Abwab should come to him, and having done that, he gathered his army and proceeded on 
till he came down into a valley which is called Zàbul-lân (in some MSS. Babul-Abwab, but it is a mistake.) It 
is related that he continued his way, till he arrived in Samander which is one of the Khazarian cities. 
Here the army of Babul-Abwab under,the command of Asad the, son of Sclâm (consisting of 30,000 men. 
In the Djaghatai translation we do not find this name Asid or Asad.) arrived and Mervan’s army amounted 
to one hundred and fifty thousand men. (Ii is clear that Mervan passed from Armenia through Georgia 
and the Darial, to the Ossetia of this day. See Extrect VII note 82.). With the united armies Mervän. pro- 
ceeded on till he came to the city of Sindrank (must be a fault; in another copy Dr. Dorn has found 1Su- 
manderank, but in the Djaghatai , trarslation we have Sind; this must be the Semid or the Semend of 
some other Geographers; consult Part I. Remark 15.), where the, king of the Khazars: dwelt. The Khagkan 
took to flight. Mervan passed that place, left that city behind jand encamped on the river Sigkläb, Here 
he destroyed thé cavalry of the infidels, plundered and slaughtered the enemy; he broke down 20.000 houses. 
Now be was informed that the Khagkan had sent to fight with him a warrior called Hazär-Tarkhän at the 
head of 40.000 men» &e. 
1 Tarkhan is a Tartar or rather -a Mongol word, common to both languages at present. It means 
