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INDEX. 
Alaja, village of, ii. 674. 
Alexander the Great, mound of the ruins at the 
Chehel-Minar, probably the palace burnt by 
him, i. 646, 647. 
-, remarks on the confla¬ 
gration of the banqueting-house by, i. 648.650. 
—-, at Ecbatana, ii. 98. 
■-, his march to Babylon, ii. 
287. 
---, death of, ii. 288, 289. 
375. 381. 
-, tomb of, ii. 289. 
Alexander Mirza, a prince of Georgia, ii. 519, 
520, 521. 
AlexandrofF, town described, i. 45. 
Alget, river, i. 157. 
Algovy Kabaki, or the fort of Constantine, i. 56. 
Alibegloo, village of, ii. 605, 606. 
Ali-Bey-Kiey-Sou river, the ancient Cydaris, 
ii. 761. 
Ali Eben Hassan, tomb of, ii. 397. 
Ali Hill, ii. 448. 
Ali Khan, the Courdish chief, ii. 535—537. 562. 
Ali Nackee Mirza, governon of Casvin, i. 290. 
-, his children, i. 292. 
-, his house, i. 294, 295. 
Ali Shah, mosque of, i. 222. 
-, villages of, ii. 607. 
Alma, village of, ii. 698, 699. 
Alma-lee-Dagler, hills, ii. 683. 
Almansour, founder of Bagdad, ii. 254. 
Almout fortress, i. 289. 
Almasary, village of, ii. 603. 
Alleguz mountain, i. 168. 
Alooy, village of, ii. 62. 
Altars on the rock of Nakshi-Roustam, i. 566. 
570. 
-, Babylonian, ii. 317, 318. 
-, ancient, in the caves of Marga, ii. 495, 
496. 
Alyattes, father of Crcesus, his tumulus near 
Sardis, i. 17. 
A1 Biad, tribe of ii. 433. 
Ali, caliph, sepulchre of, ii. 336. 
Ali Copi gate at Ispahan, ii. 264. 
A1 Gezera, ii. 247. 
A1 Hymer, mound on the eastern shore of the 
Euphrates, ii. 390, 391, 392—402. 
A1 Hymer, singular cement of, 393. 
■--, inscriptions on the bricks at, ii. 
394, 395. 
-, other mounds near, ii. 395, 396. 
-, out of the boundaries of ancient 
Babylon, ii. 397, 398. 
-, name of, ib. 
-, probably one of the colleges or 
towns of the astronomers and soothsayers of 
Babylon, ii. 397, 398. 
A1 Jebal, ii. 87. 93. 
-, mountains, i. 287. 
Al-Maidan, city of, supposed to be Ctesiphon, 
ii. 408. 
-, palaces, &c. at, ii. 166. 
-, built out of the remains of ancient 
Babylon, ii. 338. 
-, destruction of, ii. 215. 
-, the, of Constantinople, ii. 751. 
Ali Pacha trench, ii. 306. 
Amadabad, valley of, i. 261, 262. 
Amamloo, i. 166. 
Amassia, town and valley of, ii. 706. 
-, the birth-place of Strabo, ii. 707. 
-, royal sepulchral caves in' the fortress- 
rock at, ii. 708—712. 
-, sketch of the city, ii. 713. 
Amazons, country of the, ii. 696. 
Ameen, Caliph, ii. 257. 
Ameenabad, village of, i. 446. 
Amerat, village of, ii. 77. 
-, hospitality at, 78. 
Amran Hill, adjoining Birs Nimrood, ii. 339— 
373. 
-, tomb of, ii. 372. 
-, urns in the embankment, ii. 372, 373. 
Amytis, Queen of Nebuchadnezzar, ii. 97. 
Anana, village of, ii. 379. 
-, ridge of mounded earth near, 380. 
Anderoon, or royal female apartments at 
Tabreez, i. 230. 
Angora, town and goats of, ii. 720. 
Anguerore, village of, ii. 673. 
Anecdote of Acacius, Bishop of Amida, ii. 14. 
-of Cyrus the Second, ii. 93. 
- of the Pacha Ahmed, ii. 248. 
-of Tackt-i-Kesra, and its founder, ii. 
410, 411. 
