Aesitee, ancient people (of Arabia Deserta),
jEs6o5p6u s, river, now the Boklu, or eSi atalldiere
(flowing from Mount Ida), 315
Afgh&nistiin, limits of, 91
and Baluchistan one kingdom, 160
, once Ariani, 160
, boundaries and extent, 161
, features, 161, 173
, rivers of, 163
- climate and temperature, 173, 174
■ vegetable productions, 174
1 revenue df, 177
, military force of, 177
Afghans; character of the, 174,175
, call themselves Pushtanah, 175
} their origin, 175
} government, &c., of the, 175,176
} customs and amusements of the, 176
, social state of the, 17 6
Afivdm Kara-hisar, pdshdlik of, 337
town (Opium Black Castle), 336
, limits of the pishdlik, 336
> town, probably the ancient metropolis,
336
, manufactures of, 336
-----■, castle of, 336
■, excavations of, 365
Afladj, El (district of Nedjd), position, &c.,
of, 633 .
Africa and Asia, separation of, marked by
two granite columns, 486
_, circumnavigated by the Arabs, 652
’Afn'n, river, 407
— its breadth, 423
Afschan, ’Ain El (in Tripoli district), 450
Afshar, tribe and its branches, 250
% strength of, and where found, 250
Agabeni, ancient people of Arabia Deserta-
Agakkani, tribe (of lower Fars), 251
Agatho, Mount, cisterns of the fortress on,
667
Agsiel Arabs, general carriers, 6.86
Agha, a Turkish chief of a village or town,
380 . , . - .
Aghdsnik’h, or Akhtzmes (province ot Armenia),
10 2
Ahmedyat, or Dzifár, capital (ot Mahrah
district), 638
Ahrimán (the evil principle), 85
Ahubárah (kind of bustard), 82
Ahwáz, district, taxes of, 260
Aias, village (in Yemen), 620
Aidín, a’yánlik of, 309
— ------- , limits of, 309
, town, 309
Aighry (Crooked Water), (in Shir van district),
Aghor, river (in Balilchistan), 178
Aghr Tagh, valley (on the eastern arm of
the Jaihan), 300
_______ . (behind Mar ash), 351
Agine's, ruins (probably Ahwaz), 203
Agontufe, village, in the desert (towards Pal-
myra), 522
Agrica, district (in Colchis), 275
Agriculture of Asia Minor, 371
Agrilium (now Vezir Khan), 323
Ahen-rubd (magnet), 76
Ahkaf, desert of, extent, boundaries, fcc. 634
iake and quicksand lately discovered
Ahman-abad, plain (in ’Irak Ajemi), 212 ^
Ahmed ben Muhammed, bounds Dzitar or
Ahmedyat (in Mahrah district)» 638
Ahmed Shahi (Kandahar), 166
Ahmedia. nlain (near Tabriz), 220
137
Ailah, Ezion Geber, or ruins of, 596
Ailis, magal of (in Urd-abád), 145
Ailisse-chai (tributary of the Aras), 9
’Ain, fountain (near Antioch), 540
’Ainabol (Ineboli), a’yánlik (of Kastaraiini),
330 „ '
’Ainaud, district and town (of Marah province),'
638
Aineh-chái (affluent of the Kodus chái or
Hermus), 310
Ainolhurr (cat’s eye), 76 t
’Ain-táb, city, probably once Antiochia ad
Taurum, description of, 350
’Ain-Zarbah, deserted city (in the plain of
Adanah), 300,355
•----- , ruins and site of, 355
Ai’roum, magal of (in Elizabethpol), 151
Aja or Edja, peak (in Jebel Shammar), 627
Ajax, tumulus of, or Mount Tepe, 318
Ají chái (tributary of the river Aras), 9,219
Ají river (in Azerbaíján), 219
Ají Tágh (in Sívás district), 276
*Ajliin, Jebel (Eglon), in the Decapolis, 503
’Akabah, gulf and mountains of, 561, 570
, castle, 596
Akabat-Ailah, or Belad-el-Hebesch (commencement
of the Hijáz), 596
Akájtík Tágh (N.W. of Argaeus), 290
’Akár, Jebel (in Hadramaut), 637
’Akar-Kilf, mound of Nimrúd, or Akari
Bábil, 105,117
Akat, district, taxes of, 259
Akerman treaty, 130
Akhal-Kalaki, sanják and fortress of (m
Child’er), 148
Akhdar, Jebel,Green Mountains (in ’Omán),
640
Akhdíb Tágh (in Shírván), 136, 137
Ak-hisár, plains (in Sáru Khán district), 309
Akhltskhai, province, 130
, position, &c., of, 147
, and Kárs district, represent Child’er or
Turkish Georgia, 147
, sanják of, 148
Akh-sú, white water (in Shírván), 137
’Akik (stone) or cornelian, 76
Akil (or Yemani) stone, 567
’Akir, village, probably Ekron (in Judea),
492
Akjah Tágh (in Sívás district), 291
’Akká, or Saíde, páshálik, position, &c., 461
, products of the plain of, 464
, or Acre, town (once Ptolemais), description
of, 482,483
, sieges, &c., history and fortifications,
484,485
’Akká, climate of, 534
Akl<5 Tágh (near the vale of Tókát), 287
Akmá Tágh or Beilán mountains, 384
Akra, tributary of the Great Záb, 24
, Haj station (in the Hijáz), 597
Akrabbim, ridge (at the northern extremity
of Wádí ’Arabah), 562
Ak-seráí, district, 290
, musselimlik, 344
, or Archilais, town, 348
Akshar, plain (near the Yechil-Irmák), 289
Ak-sií, tributary of the Great Mendereh, 297
■ (Cestrus), 338
Ak Tágh, or Akájík Tágh (plain of Kaisa-
riyeh), 289
(eastward of ’Osmánjik), 286
, in the Taurus (near Marash), 293
Ma’ den, a’yánlik (of Chapán Oghlu),
305
Aktar Tágh (Massicytus) (páshálik of
Moola), 340
Akura (district of Tripoli), 454
Alajah chá’í, or Tchoterlek Irmák (in the
Sívás district), 295
Alá Tágh, mountain (at the source of the
Murád tíhái), 42, 328
(a culminating point of the Anti-
. Taurus), 69
, a branch of Taurus Proper (skirting
the plain of Kóniyeh), 294
Alazan, valley (in Georgia), 156
Alazani, river (tributary of the Kur), 10
Albanian gates (near Derbend), names of
the, 134
Albatia, a chief town (of Assyria Proper),
120
Aleppo, páshálik, position of, 406
, limits and superficies of, 406
, warm district, near Antioch, 407
, plain of, 411
, “ tells” of, 411
, pastoral and other inhabitants of,
436
, Millis and other Kurds of, 437
, Turks and other agriculturists of, 437
, Syrians of, 438
, climate of the plain of ’Umk and
coasts, 439
, upland of, climate of, 440
, earthquakes of, 439
, vegetable productions, wild and tame
animals, 442
, birds of, 443
, the tafr-el-ráouf, fish, serpents, reptiles,
&c., 444
, commercial state of, 445
, capital,-446
button (disease), 441
, exports and imports of, 446
— —, improvements contemplated, 447
, commercial houses of, 445
, cotton and silk stuffs, and balance of
trade, 446
——, town, situation, size, buildings, bá-
zárs, &c., 432, 433
, specimens of the ancient balist®, bow,
arrows, and artillery in, 434
Aleppo, exterior and interior appearance, 435
, sunk village, 1 1 miles S. W. thence,
410
, precautions against earthquakes, 433
, ancient excavations and situation, 435
I supposed site of the ancient town, 435
, inhabitants and population, 436
Alexandria ad Caucasum (now probably
Beghram), 172
of Troas, or Eski Stambiil, 316
Alexandropolis ("now probably Kandahar),
166
Alghete, river (Bortchalin district), 152
’Ali Abate village (in Talish), 139
—— Il&hiyah (a Persian sect), 88, 143
Aliges Beg, mountain (a peak of the Anti-
Taurus), 68
Alinda, ancient, now Mdgolla (in Moola
pash&lik), 341 '
Alindja chai (in Nakhehivan), 145
Alindjine, magal, (in Nakhehivan district),
145
Alishtar, plain (in Luristan province), 206
’Ali Tagh (branch of Niphates near Mush),
18, 69
------------, description of, 292
, part of the Anti-Taurus (near Bostan),
292
Alitta of the Arabs, like the Mylitta of the
Assyrians, 88
Alkas Tagh, or Olgassys (borders of Kasta-
muni), 287
Almali Tagh, near Gemiri (in the Northern
branch of the Anti-Taurus), 289
Almalic, town (in Moola pasMlik), 341
Alsadamus, mount, of Ptolemy (now Jebel
Haouran), 507 (note)
Alti Aghaj Tagh (near the plain of Amasi-
yah), 295
Altiin su, or lesser Zab, 26
Alvadi, village (in Talish), 139
Alyattes, tumulus of (near Sardis), 312
Alybes, or Chasdim (in Central Armenia),92
’Amadiyah, or Zebari, mountains (part of
Taurus in Kurdistan), 70
, town, near the great Z&b, 99
, supposed town of the Medes, 120
Amanus (branch of the Taurus), 384
, description of, 407
Amiiserah, Amastus, or new Sesamum (town
of Kastamuni), 330
’Amasiyah,plain and town (in Sivas district),
272
, valley of (in Sivas district), 295
, city, description of, 304
Amassia, in Sahan (district of Yemen), 615
Amatha or Amathus, 513
Amathus or Remtha, 512
Amazons, country of, (on the southern slopes
of the Caucasus), 140
Ambust® (people of the Paropamisus), 172
Amer Robbia (in Nedjd), 633
Amharic language, 83 and note
, the root of the Pehlevi, 84
Amman (Philadelphia), ruins of, once Rab-
bah of the Ammonites, (in Jebel-el-Belka),
517
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