BlffEM.! ©aoUXH® OF AM.MUHB'AM CHS.ISTEAM.S,-MEATS. AHCIKHX 'jnUlffA, BMK® Off ' C ABK.AS.
I t l i o f
Md w ;tii||| that uwvi6B6
■to the great earthquake: of i It? ¡,41 <■ 4A/1O0 houses.
Old writers call it .KamakMu,; !_h.;v i^ife'si^ ^^ ^ ^ s ihstihgruishi
it by the name. of .Keghktta Clhagher ' t cr * f * ■ 1» »y 1.
;. The v rn capit»! w,* founded by Nad!* ft $ W 4 t it
wit#: twsd'':te‘ Prist^A Si R,k4a in 1766, b u t% 1 >< ‘^fit’ll in'
■ Neaidy two. miles westward <>f ¿'»k&xw.liV* *?«* ;i»»? < * , •
•• aide ruins of Kiz-Kal’ah, .who« tfWidfe; mwp* sSisfiWliii 10
an isolated rock, shaped like <mm. tir £Mtt WWtih
soms.ancient,,galleries,. ami & f&r*, C> feet latig by
21 43s*t wide, nod 7 dfort deep * f «*v » *r> e&eawfcted
aC.artefimtO' period. $, "KriitKU?. swu.v'm- '?0»stic of
the'SVirgia1?! to the *?i Shire-;:, a ; for whom, as
well as isteif harems. It Set-wed »* a retreat in ease of invasion,
and likewise, during l&g oppressive heat of summer.®
The ewfcrtx or ch»««pagne portion of Talish contains many
villages, as Khizilaghatehe Arkivan, Alvadi, Badalane, Ali
Abate, &c.; hut not being drained, these places are unhealthy..
The I^uhrw* w hvir*^ * dM r r.ffllwtt. wMb
422 house» 1m f|§
£ i>Ut A':. -''A' - ::A .¡r-'A:;1
have here fci Hst- Vicinity ter the Mnssi&ii authoyitfei;
-^ slw # and unsafe; Sera is now
the port of T&tttw t ■•'Wad' hrtW'S' sheltered by the ■ us,n*:.’,■ ®f that,
name, and deep, as well as commodious, it. is the principal
station: of the Russian war flotilla 0» the Caspian Sea..
The inhabitant» of Shirvan eeasst of hekris, or nobles,
priests, mertfeate, artisans,cultivators, and shepherds..; and,
"lastly, the -nomadic tribes, who -swiotint to one-fourth o f an.
aggreedte population of 25d,58l Wstta.* descended chiefly irtt»
: Tartar,.'Perakij/Araienian, and 11 ei,®fiW'stocks. The •Cw.
•.few, and the Arsjenlan Chrirtiass scaKelj ($1$% - . r iB A ^
o f the Muhammadans, who-'are genera Hy *» • r . >d,
' Aperc&v &c., Tome III., p. 145 to 140.
.iag 100,302 in Sheld.*~U>ul, p. 61 te s$.,«t'n, . .