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INDEX. 
Armenian family at Constantinople, cruelty ex¬ 
ercised towards one, ii. 747. 
-merchants in the reign of Shah Abbas, 
i. 424. 
-mothers, degraded state of, i. 425. 
-clergy, supineness of the, i. 426. 
Armenians, persons, dress, &c., i. 427, 428, 429. 
-, customs and religion of, i. 429. 
--, of Julfa, ii. 612, 613. 
-, cemeteries, ii. 613—615. 
-, dress of the, at Constantinople, ii. 
758. 
Armour, ancient, of the Persian royal guards, 
i. 601, 602, 603. 
-, ancient Courdish, ii. 487. 
Arms of the Mahometan and Pagan Ossitinians, 
i. 94. 
Army of the Pasha of Bagdad, ii. 253, 254. 
-of Persia, state of the, ii. 580—583. 
--, order of the old Persian, ii. 584—586, 
et seq. 
Arnaut Kieuy, town of, ii. 775. 
Arpatchia (or Kars) river, i. 171. ii. 638. 642. 
648, 649, 650. 
-, source of the, 653. 
Arphaxad, King. See Dejoces. 
Arsaees, king, i. 553, 
-, king, ii. 135, 136. 
Arsacia. See Rhey. 
Arsacidean coins, ii. 133. 
Artaxerxes Longimanus, the same as Ahasue- 
rus, ii. 113. 
-Mnemon, brother of the younger 
Cyrus, ii. 41, 42. 44. 
Artillery barracks of Top$ Kala, ii. 573. 
Artimeta. See Dustajerd. 
Artishall, i. 102. 
Arts, state of the, in Persia, i. 418. 
Arzeroom, Armenian city of, ii. 667—672. 
-, population, ii. 669. 
-, dress, &c. of the inhabitants, ii. 
670. 
Ash-Kala, village of, ii. 674. 
Ashk, founder of the Arsacesian dynasty, i. 362. 
Ashtorick river, i. 168. ii. 638. 
Ashur, Nimrod’s son, founder of the Assyrian 
empire, ii. 95. 
Asiatic women, remarks on, i. 341. 
Askar-Abab, village of, ii. 591. 
Ass, wild, of Persia, i. 459, 460. 
-, hunting the, 461. 
Assassins, or El Hassans, sect of, i. 286_288. 
Assyria, ancient, the parent of Pagan worship, 
ii. 53. 
-, pass from Persia into, ii. 207. 
Assyrian empire, origin of the, ii. 95. 
--, divided between Arbaces and Be¬ 
lesis, ib. 
Assyrian sculptures, ancient, ascribed to Semira- 
mis, ii. 152. 
Astacus, relics of the river, ii. 733. 
Astyages, court of, ii. 96. 
-, ruins of the ancient city of, 103. 
Athele tree, on the Kasr, or Palace, near Ba¬ 
bylon, ii. 369. 
Attack on the column of pilgrims near Kesra 
Shirene, ii. 221. 228. 
Atour, the river, ii. 500. 
Attush Kou, or Fire Hill, i. 437. ii. 59. 
Attush Kudda, or Fire Temple of the Guebres, 
ii. 515, 516. 
Augi, the salt river, i. 220. ii. 607. 641, 642. 
Auggi-Daghler, mountains, ii. 673. 
Aurani, village of, ii. 674. 
Avalanches in the Caucasus, i. 145—148. 
Axai, the river, i. 35. 
Azenkandu, village of, ii. 493. 511. 
Azerbijan, part of ancient Media, i. 215. 220, 
221. 226. 
-, frontier of, ii. 492. 
-. See Tabreez. 
Azub, Nestorian village of, ii. 660. 
B. 
Baba Gurgur, ii. 441. 
Babel owes its origin to the grandson of Ham, 
ii. 94. 
-, Tower of. See Birs Nimrood. 
Babylon, i. 720. 
-and Babylonia, the author sets out 
from Bagdad towards, ii. 283. 407. 
-, ancient walls of, ii. 284. 
—--splendour of, ii. 285. 
■ Alexander’s march to, ii. 287. 
