Deir-el-Kammar (capital of the Druses), I
466, 467, 470
________, population and manufactures, 470
------------- necropolis of, 470
y -village (on the Barrada river),
502 .
el-Kul’ah, temple (of the Lebanon),
view from, 465
el Rughan, valley (of the Kesruan),
467
Za’faran (convent), (on the Upper Tigris),
18
— cuneiform inscriptions of, 169
Deli Baba, town and group (between the
sources of the Mur&d and Frat branches),
67, 68 '
—4- Chai, or the Pinarus (river of the Ama-
nus), 408 .
Deliah su (Mad Water) Yuz-Kat river (tributary
to the Halys), 5
Delibashi (inferior Turkish chief), 376
Delik Tash (mount Climax), (part of Taurus),
338,340
________, village in the island of Crambusa,
with ruins and inscriptions (in Tekeh
district), 338
Delikli Tash, a’yanlik of (in Sivas district),
306
Deloul, a class of camels (in Arabia), 583
Demar or Damar, town (of Yemen), 619
Demer, river, now Nahr-el-Kadi, probably
'Bifoyrus (near Deir el Kammar), 467,
Demir Aparane, river (in Shirvan), 137
Demirji, range, or Kudge Tagh (part of
Olympus), 288, 314, 322
chai, or ancient Hyllus in Sarukhan,
310
Demyawend and Taberistan, taxes of, 258
Denawar Abi, tributary of the Gamasab, 193
Denek Ma’den, sanjak of, 305
Tagh and Denek Ma’den, mines near
the Halys, north of Kir-Shehr, 290, 305
Denghiz, Aga, or White Sea, description of,
395, 424
Denizi, Aghaj, forest between the Bosphorus
and Boli district, 322 (note)
Denizli, kasabah (of Kermiyan eyalet), 335
Dera, ruins of, and Abi-Dera stream (tributary
of the Holwan), 34
Derawish, village on the Tigris (rums of
Numrud or Ashur), 22, 119
Der’ayyah, chain of Nedjd, described, 566
, town, described, 631 ^ #
___ | routes to, and from El Khatif and
other places, 633
Derbe of St. Paul, now Devli (towards the
southern border of Koniyeh eyalet), 348
Derbend, capital of Daghestan description
of, 132, 134
■----- , fortress of, 70
, taken by Peter the Great, 129, 130,
131
, trade of, 134
, defile of, 190
Dereachte, lake (in Fars), 208
Dereh-Beg or Bei (prince or lord of the valley),
127. 380
Derejez (tribe of Kurds), 251
Derendah, town (on the Tokhmah sú), 44
Deri, or modern Persian language, 84
Derrahi Ghází Kháni (town in Kach’h Gan-
daváh), 183
Dervishes, convent of (near Tripoli), 456
Desert, great tracts of, in Persia, 78, 79
, between Sárawán and Kohistán, 184
of Arabia, capabilities of, 580
Dethas, ruins (eastward of Kerak), 521
Deveh Bdyunú Tágh, group (of the northern
Anti-Taurus), 68
Devli, the Derbe of St. Paul, 348
Devrek Chai or Doros, tributary of the
Halys, 5, 328
town, near the Korner su, 41
Dhaka, village (in the valley of Kabul),
171
Dhakhan, Beni Abd, Cushite Arabs, 659
Dhan, river, or lesser Jordan, 399
Dhibon town (Dibon) (in Jebel-el-Balka),
515
Dhoran, ancient town (of Yemen), 619
Dhorrah, district (o f’Omán), 641, 644
Dhouhin Arabs (of El Ledja), 504 ^
Dibbah, town and castle of (in ’Omán), 645
Dibbes, a sweetmeat, 538 (note)
Didajens, people (of the Caucasus), 154
Didy, village (plain of the Haouran), 511
Diglah, Or Hiddekel river, 13
Diglito (the Tigris), 13 (note)
Dilem, district, taxes of, 258
Dilfun, branch (of the Surs), 206, 250
Dilmán, town in the valley of Selmast near
Urumiyah, 220
Dimla, town (of Yemen), 618
Dinarettum of Pliny, now Cape St. Andreas
(in Cyprus), 457 # j .
Dineir Apamea Cibotis (in the district of
Hamid), 337
Dinsaran district, tribute of, 258
Dio Csesarea or Sepphoris, now Sufurleh
with Herod’s palace, 463
Diocaesarea, ruins of (I’ch-ili district), 355
Dionysius (ancient), now Shohba (in the
Haouran), 509
Dio Sefid, plain (between Teheran and Ma-
zanderán), 213 _ '
Diospolis, now Ludd or Lydda (in Palestine),
492
Dirhem, a coin, value of, 255 and note
Divers for pearls, 648
, vessels cleaned by, 649
Divrigi, town (in Sivás district), 272
, mussellimlik and town, 305
, town, or Tephrene, 305
Div-Rúd, probably the Bagrada river (in
Kirmán), 230
Diwán (place of honour), 366, 367
Khanah (reception room), 242
Díwáníyah, town (on the Lower Euphrates),
57, 94, 111
Diyádín, town (W. of Mar’ash), 42
.----------- ., view from, 67
Diyálah river, or Gyndes, 27, 28, 33, 35,
119,^122
, tributaries of the, 34
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Diyar Bekr, city, description of, 14
, once Tigranocerta, 99, 10 2 , 106, 1 1 1
, past prosperity and capability of, 15
, p&shiilik (ancient Osroene), 93
Diz, fort of, on the Dizfiil river, 196
Siyah or Kuh Siyah, plain (in Luri
Buzurg), 206
Dizfiil river, source and course of, 196
, probably the Copratas, 205
, breaks through the Zagros, 196
, falls into the Karun, 197
, city, 196
Djar, or coast of Hij&z, 596
Djeddel, village (of El Ledja), 505
Djedur, plain (in Damascus pashalik), 501
Djeha, village (of El Ledja), 505
Djenubyeh, village (in El Sedeir district),
628
Djof, Ed, 614
Djolan, plain (in Damascus p&shalik), 501
Djulfa, village (on the Aras), 9
Dobber, village (in Haschid-el-Bekil), 616
Dog, river (Nahr-el-Kelb), or Lycus (of
Kesruan), 466
Doga, town (of Hijaz), 610
Doganlu remains, probably ancient Naco-
leia (S.E. of Kutahiyah), 334
Dogs of Arabia, &c., 587
Dohvan, 615
Dokhala, village and canal (from the Tigris),
Dola, an Arabian governor equivalent to
“ pashd,” 619
Dombai, hills (in Afiyum Kard, Hisar), 336
Doomsook, island (of Arabia), 571
Dorak* coffee plantations (in Yemen), 621 ■ ---- - Kh<5r (in Susiana), 192 ■--- , canal from Sabla, 199
— , or Felahiyah, 199
, town, called Little Basrah, 201
Dorama, village (in El Waschem, district of
Nedjd), 629
Dorgil Tash, a’yanlik of (in Sivas district),
306
Doros, ancient, now the Devrek Chai (affluent
of the Halys), 5
Dorylseum, hot baths (near Eski-Shehr),
334
Dositheans (sect of Syrians), 542
Doumet-el-Joudol (in Jof-es-Syrhan), 627
Doureperan or Turaberan (province of Armenia),
10 2
Dowaser Wadi (in Nedjd), 632
Arabs, 633
Dowstullub (hired Afghan soldiers), 177
Drangiana or ’SiwistAn, 168
, position of, 168
, capital of, 168
Drilloe, ancient people (near the Black Sea),
276
Dromedary, the “ hajin” of Arabia, the “ma-
herry” of Africa, and the “ hurkary” of
Asia, 583 ■ ----- , speed of, 583
Druses, people of Lebanon, 468
, mountains of the, 465, 507
| villages and distances, 465
Druses, capital of, 470
-, people, houses, &c., 470
, social state of, 507, 548
——, manufactures of the, 508
, government, &c., 548
, the Emir Beshir and Sheikh Beshir of
the, 548
, scenery of the Druse district, 549
« , supposed religion of the, 550
, ornaments of the women, 557
——, population of the, 558
Dubban, village (of the Hijaz), 611
Duchet, district (of Kartelinia), 154, 155
, population, 157
Duden, or Attalia s6, ancient Catarractes (in
Tekeh district), 338
Duhistan (of Fars), 80
, (of Moghostan), 80
Duhy ed Jebel, or the Lesser Hermon, 391
Dujeil, or Little Tigris (canal), 28, 29
Dujik, mountains (part of the Taurus), 42,
43, 68
Dumak-el-Jaudal, fair (in Arabia), 663
DumbuTagh, mountains (near Diving), 75
, minerals of the, 75
, description of the, 291
Durdun Tagh (in Cilicia), 294
, river, the Pyramus of Strabo, 293
(note)
Durghut-li-Kasabah (in Saru-Khan district),
310
Durnah Yaila-si, mountain (in Angora district),
329
, or Mount Armenius (part of Olympus),
288
Durrah or Zarrah, lake (in Seist&n), 77,168
Durrani, the dominant tribe of Afghanistan,
176
, military force of, 177
Duseprum, now Duzchah, village (in Angora
district), 323
Dygom (tributary of the Kur), 10
Dzemmis, or people under Muslim protection,
253
Dzifar or Ahmedyat, capital (of Mahrah
district), 638
Earthquakes in Arabia, 578
Easis, ancient town (of Gedrosia), 185
Ebal, mount (near Nabulus), 490
Ecbatana, now Hamadan, 2 1 2
, ancient capital of Media Magna, 218
Echmiyadzin village and cathedral, seat of
the Armenian Patriarch, once the city of
Yagharshabad, 147
Ed-dahye, village (in Tehameh), 614
Eden, supposed site of the garden of, 266,
267, 268 ^
, traditional site of, 267
— --, probably around the sources of four
rivers in Armenia, 268
— , identity of the third and fourth rivers,
269
, sources of the four great rivers (in
Armenia), 269
, valley of, in Syria, 450
— , village of, in Syria, 454
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