Batrun, once Botrys, town and district (of
Tripoli), 454
Bayas, once Ba'iae ruins of (in tlie Gulf of
lssus), 46, 409
Bayazid town (near Mount Ararat), 42, 6 6 ,
99 Bazars described, 369
Bazar-chai (in Karabagh), 142
Bazarjik, Ovab of, on the Ak su (in the Taurus),
300
Bazar-keni, town (of Khodavendi-kar), 320
Bazavik, town (of Sultan Oni), 334
Bazebda, now Jezireh-ibn-’Omar (on the
Upper Tigris), 20
Bdellium, the pearl, 279
, the schoham, 279
Be Dukhan, branch of the Hai canal, 36
Beahrahm village, ruins of Assos (Gulf of
Adramit), 316
Beatitudes, mount of, (north of Mount Tabor),
464
Becheb-armak, mountain (in Kuba), 132
Bedey, El, village in El Afladj (district of
Nedjd), 633
Bedi’ah, town in Jailan (district o f’Oman),
642
----- , kanats and Oasis of, 642
Bedoni, village in Abu Arisch (Tehameh),
611
Bedr or Beder Honeyn, town (in the Hijaz),
601
Beels, of India, 125
Beghram (in Afghanistan) probably Alexandria
ad Caucasum, 172
Begler-beg, a governor of the second class
(in Persia), 233
Begrek Tagh (near the Halys), 290
Beham (in Kabul) district, taxes of, 259
Behkobad near Kufah, upper district of, 256
— middle district of, 256
-——, lower district of, 256
Beiad, a’yanlik of (in Afiyum Kara-hisar),
336
Beibahoun, plain and city (in Khuzistan),
200
Beilan, town, probably ancient Pietanus, 409
Be’ilan, mountains, 384
, snow on, 439
Beinder Tagh, group (in Angora pashalik),
288 ~
Beiram, Muhammedan festival, 244
Bei'ranavend, tribal subdivision of the Lak,
250
Beirut, port and town, 468
, once Felix Julia and Berytus, probably
Berothah, or Ba’al Berith, 469
, climate of, 534
, silk grown around, 537
, port destroyed by Fakr-ed-din, 469
Beisan, town and Tell, once Bethshean or
Scythopolis, 477
, Nahr, affluent of the Fariyah, 487
Bekil, Haschid-el-, (district), 615
B61& (town of Lus), 179,180
Belad-el-Belkd, or Jebel-el-Belka (Persca
Proper), 503, 515
Belad Khan Azra, in Aleppo district, 415^
Belesis, the Satrap’s palace(in Aleppo pashalik),
415
Belik, or Belitz, river (affluent of the Upper
Euphrates), 48
Bel-li-Gedik T&gh, group (near the valley of
the Tokhmah-su), 292
Believe, magal and valley of (in the district
of Urd-5bad), 145
Belka, Wadi El, or Wadi Mekkah, 602
Belus, or Numan, river, course of towards
’Akka, 467
Bern, ancient town (of Kirman), 231
Benarooz, village (in Lar district), 228
Bendimir, river (of Persia), 77
Benefsheh (garnet), 76
Bersea, ancient Aleppo, once Chalybon or
Chalcis and probably Aram Zobah, 436
, succeeded Palmyra commercially, 652
Beramba, city (of lower Chaldea), 94
Berber, cape and battery (in the Dardanelles),
319
Berber Arabs, 659
Berdistan, cape (in Laristan,) 226
Berdizawi (valley of the Lesser Zab),23, 273
Bereketli Ma’den, valley of (in the Taurus),
354 H H |
Bergama su, ancient Caicus (in Kara-si
district), 314
Bergushet stream, affluent of the river Aras,
10
Berkia, or Irmia, son of Saul, supposed ancestor
of the Afghans, 175
Bermasir, ancient town (of Kirman), 231
Berrawi, tribe (of Chaldeans), 120
Bersir, ancient town (of Kirman), 231
Beruz, village (in Lar district), 228
Berytus (Beirut) probably Berothath, 468,
469
Beschem, or balm of Mekkah, 601
Besed and Merjan (coral), 76
I Beshika bay (coast of Troy), 317
Besni, mussellimlik (in the Taurus), 350
Bessam, village in El Woschem (district of
Nedjd), 629
Bestam, pass (S.S.E. of Aster-abad), 74
Beteddin, palace of the Emir Bechir (in the
Lebanon), 471
Betha, Wadi, in Jailan (district of’Oman),
642 ^
Bethara, ancient city(of Lower Chaldea), 94
Bethlehem Ephrate, 495
I well of the mighty men near, 495
, and Hebron ridges, 392
Bethuliah city, probably once Jotapata (now
Safet or Japhet), 479
Betogabris, once Eleutheropolis, now Beit
Jibrin (in Judea), 492
Betser (Bezer) now Bostra or Bozrah, also
Busrah.or Eski Sham, 509
Bezommar, Armenian convent (in the Kes-
. ruan), 547
Biar Nasif (near Medina), 598
Bid-pai (wind-footed) horse, 81
Bielaio, White Water or Sougait (in the
district of Baku), 133
I Bolitee, people (of Paropamisus), 172
Boninaki, river (of Daghestan), 133
Boobian, island (at the estuary of the Euphrates),
Bigali and Kara si, districts represent an- 1
cient Mysia, 315
Bihboud Khan (in Siyah-band), 164
Bika, valley (of Coele-Syria), 393
Bilbos, tribe of, 251
, armour of, 251
Bili, African branch of Arabs,their character
by Eclrisi, 696
Billseus or Filiyas, river (of Boli), 321, 322,
323, 328
Billee Arabs (in the Hijaz), 597
Bin Gol Tagh, and source of the Aras or
Harharas, 8, 68 f
Binab, village (eastward of lake Urumiyah);
220
Bir or Bireb-jik, town and castle, 46, 47,
111
, zeugma of, 544
Bir ’Ali, well in El Kassym (district of
Nedjd), 629
Bir-Borhout, enchanted well (in Hadra-
maut), 638
Biri, Wadi el (in Galilee and Samaria),
462 .
Bire'imah, fort and Wahhabi town m Dhor-
rah (district of ’Oman), 644
Birket of Kereye, near Szalkhat (in the
Haouran), 508
Birket Om Amoud (in Jebel el Belka),
517
Biroum, reception room, 244
Birs or Baris Nimrud, 105,116
, the supposed temple of Belus, 116
Bische, the capital of Wadi Scheran (m
Nedjd) and the key of Yemen, 632
Bisutiin, ruins and inscriptions (near Kir-
man-Shah), 216
Bithynia, limits of, &e., 321
Bithynian Olympus, or ’Ali Tagh, 288
Bitlis, town (of Kurdistan), 18, 99, 120,
272
Bitlis-chai (of Kurdistan), 19
Black Sea, climate of, the coast of, 358
Blanco, cape (in Cyprus), 458
Blucium, fortress (in Galatia), 332
Bocht or Bactrian camel, 582
Boghasser, tribe (of the Caucasus), 154
B5ghaz, the (in Coele Syria), 389
BdgMz Kissan Kal’eh (in Sivas district),
295
Boghazkoi, aytalik of (in Chapin Oghlu
district), 305 • •
Boi-abad, town (of Kastamuni), 328, 330
Boklu, or Sataldere, once iEsepus flowing
from mount Ida, 315
B61an pass (into Afghanistan), 163, 180
pass, river of, 181, 182
Bolawadin, town, once Polybotum (in the
pashalik of Afiyum Kara-hisar), 336
Bolcascove village, once Pednillissus (in
Tek6h district), 339 _ _ ^
Bolgharon, river (on the borders of Tabsh),
137
Boli, district (of Asia Minor), 321
, temperature of, 360
i——, mountains of, 321
a——, town, 321
650
Bor, group of mountains and' town (in Ko-
niyeh eyalet), 291, 348
Borko, or face veil, 680
Bortchalin (district of the Caucasus), extent
and population of, 152, 153, 157
Boscha, gipsies (of Karabagh), 143
Bosphorus, description of, 325, 326
, birds and fishes of the, 326
Bossir village (in El Loehf valley), 586
Bost, district and taxes of, 259
Bostrenus or Baruk river, now the Nahr el
Owely (near Sidon), 467
Bouam, river (of Daghestan), 133
Bounfath, tomb of the Prophet (in Hadra-
maut), 638
Boureydeh, village in El Kassym (district of
Nedjd), 629
Bournu, fortress (near Tarku), 135
Bowan, village (in San’a district), 621
Bowie, tribe (of Kurds), 251
Boy ali,excavations (north-eastward of mount
Arjish), 291
Bozanlu-su, tributary of the Saihun, 298
Boz Tagh (on the Halys), 5
(in the Caucasus), 136,137
---- , mount Sipylus (in Asia Minor), 309
Bozuk, town and district (on the Taurus),
350
Boz-uk Tagh (N.W. of mount Arjish), 290
Brahoaes or Barahui, pastoral people (of
Sarawan), 180
Brahuik mountains, an arm of the Hindu
Kush, 163
Brusah or Prusa, city, 324
----- , description of, 324, 325
, springs and baths of, 325
Bshirrai', town and district (of Tripoli),
454
Buddh, worship of, 165
Budii, people (of Media Magna), 218
Buffalo of Arabia, 586
of I’ran, 82
Buhtan Chai or Centrites (tributary of the
Tigris), 18, 19
Tagh, or Judi Tagh (part of the
Taurus), 70
Buji Heirat (branch of the Hai canal), 36
Bulak, valley (near Za’faran Boli), 330
Bulavadin, plain (of K6niyeh Eyalet), 345
Bulbasi, tribe of Kurds, 128
Bulbu-r (crystal), 76
Buldur, town (of Hamid district), 337
Bulghar Tagh (in the Taurus), 298
Bulut Tagh (or cloudy mountains of Asia),
161
, watershed of, eastern and western
Turkistan, 161
, joins the Hindu Kush, 161
, its, extent, 161
Bumadas or Khazir (tributary of the Great
Zab), 24
Bumm, capital of Lar, 228
Bunarbashi, village and site of Troy, 317