Nicopolis, or Issus, ruins of (Gulf of Isken-
derun), 408
Nigdeh, vaivodehlik (in the eyalet of Koni-
yeh), 345
■----- , plain of, 345
, town of, 348
, castle of, 354
Niksea, city (near Beghram), 172
Nikosia, or Leikosia, capital of Cyprus,
description of, 457, 459
, St. Sophia church of, 459
Niksar (Neocaesarea), town on the Char-
Shambah-su (in Sivas district), 286, 302,
or 303
Nim, district, and taxes of, 259
Nimrud, first city of, 116
, second city of, 117
, third city of, 117
, fourth city of, 117, 118
----- , supposition that the ruins called after
him, near the village of Derawish, represent
Resen, 119, 128
, ’Akari, or ’Akari Babil, 117
, or Zihru-l-awaz, bund (in the Upper
Tigris), 21, 22
Tagh (near Mush), 42, 43, 49
, Sidd, or Chalu (the Median Wall), 30
Nimruz, or Kusdi Nimrodz, territory (afterwards
Persis), 210
Nineveh, chief town of Assyria Proper, 21,
120
, still called by the original name, 119
Niphates, ancient, or ’All Tagh (in Erz-
Rum pashalik), 16
----- , or Nimrud, mount (west of LakeVan),
72, 120
Niriz, or Bakhtegan, salt lake (in F&rs), 208
Nisabur, or Nishapur, district, taxes of,
222, 258
Nissean, plains in Media Magna (N.W. of
Khorsiim-abad), 218
Nishapur, or Nisabiir, district, taxes of,
222, 258
-----, city, 76, 222
: • ■■ ■, turquoises of, 76
Nizib, kasabah of (near the Upper Euphrates),
418
Nisibin, city, or Nisibis, 50, 72, 111, 114
Noah’s supposed tomb (at Zahle), 472
Nomar, Wadi (in the coffee district), 608
Nopal, a kind of broom (in Syria), 537
Nosai’ri, or Nazareni, people (of Syria), 542
, or Ansari, range, 387
Numakn, island (in the Red Sea), 570
Numan, or Belus, river, course of (towards
Acre), 467
Nur-ed-din, one of the Khaliphs, 19
a tribe (of Kurdistan), 128, 250
Nurhak Tagh (peak of the Taurus), 293
Nurmanshir, district (of Kerman), 228
-----, town and villages of, 228
, products of, 228
, extent of, 228
Nur-zayi, Afghan country, 164
, Farrah, capital of, 164
Nyssar, ancient city (interior of Lydia),
311
Oarlse (Vourla), anchorage (in the gulf of
Ismir), 312
Oases, or cultivated tracts, 641
Obri, town (of Dhorrah, district of ’Oman),
644
Obailites, the ’Abil or ’Obail (a Cushite
branch in Arabia), 659
Ockbane, island (in the Red Sea), 571
Odinabazar, river (of Shirvan), 137
Oerak, village (eastward of the Dead Sea),
521
Oerman, ancient Philippopolis (S.E. of Jebel
Haouran), 508
’Of, district (in Tarabuzun p&shalik), 306 or
307
Olbia, site, probably at Attalia, 339, 340
Olgassys, or Alkas Tagh (westward of the
lower Halvs), 287
’Oli J&mi’ (at Brusah), 325
Olives, Mount of, or Jebel-el-Tiir, 496
view from, 496
Oloojak, plain (in Moola pashalik), 340
Olou Burlii (Apollonia), (in Hamid district),
337
Olympus, now Santa Croce, 457
Omahnaradam, island (in the Persian Gulf)*
569
’Oman, fair at, 664
, or Bel ad Mesoun, 640
, boundaries and extent of, 640
, features of, 640
, native subdivisions of, 641
, mountains of, 640
, products of, 642
, superficies of, 645
, or Sohar, town, description of, 645
, revenue and trade of, 645
, population of, 645
, Bahr (the Swelling Sea), or Indian
ocean, 640
’Omar, Khaliph, value of wheat in his time,
254
—<— , his tribute based on the Koran, 253
, tomb of (at Medina), 599
-----, mosque of, 497
el-Khattab’s mosque (at Bozra), 509
Omayyim, or Ommam, Cushite branch (in
Arabia), 659
Omisol, town (of Mekran), 185
Onyx, found in Colchis, 279
Ooloos, clan (of Afghans), 175
Oorloojak, ruins (in Moola p&sh&lik), 341
Ophis (in Colchis), 275
Opis, a chief town (of Assyria Proper), 120
Oranjik, a’yanlik (in Kermiydn eyalet),
334
Orcheni, ancient people who dwelt on the
shores of the Persian Gulf, 656
Orchoe, or Aur (in lower Chaldea), 94
Ordeals of the Arabs by fire, 665
Ordeiri, valley (of Kastamuni), 328
Ordemi, second kind of coffee in Arabia, 621
Orden, or Urdun (the Upper Jordan), 400
Ordou, port (of Tarabuziin), 307
O’rfah, city (of Mesopotamia), 71, 93, 106,
111, 114
, once part of Baghdad, 107
Oritie, ancient people of Mekrdn and Cushn
ites, 185, 281
Ormus, or Hormuz, island and straits of,
229, 640
Oroates, river (of Persis), 210
Qrontes, sources of, 394
, two branches unite at Labweb, 394 ■ , course of, towards Horns and Hamah,
395 ■ ------------ to Kal’at-el-Medik, 395
— ■ to Jisr Soghe'ir and to Jisr Hadid,
395
, scenery of the lower, 397
I-----, bar and estuary of the, 397
|---- , flooding, &c., of the, 3.97
, proposed opening of, 447
— r—*, soil of the valley of the, 501
Orthosia, remains of (near Tortosa), 451
Ortospana of Strabo, or Karura, in Kabul
district, 172
Osal, or Esal, now San’a, 623
Oscana, town (of Mekran), 185
’Osher, or apple of Sodom, 404
Osiana, now Yarapason (on theHalys), 347
Osmanjik, town and castle (on the lower
Halys), 5, 301
’Osman Keui (on the Upper Tigris), 16
’Osmanli Turks (of Mesopotamia, &c.), I l l
Osroene, district (of Upper Mesopotamia),
106, 114
, seasons, &c., of, 106,107
1— | extreme climate of, 107
, grain of, 107
-——, insects and birds of, 107
Ossab, district (in Yemen), 620
Ossetes, territory of the, 158, 159
■----- , population of the, 157
, field forts of the, 159
Ostriches, mode of killing them in Arabia,
588
Otrar, or Faryab, district, taxes of, 258
Othmans, the, came from Khorasan, 382
Oiidi, or Uti (district of Armenia), 101
Oujan, town (of Fars), 209
Oukazh, fair of (in Arabia), 664
, competitors at, 664
Oura-Shehr, town (of Bdli district), 321
Oustoukan-chai, tributary of the Aras (in
Urd-abdd district), 9, 14a
Outline of this work, 1 , 2
Ova al Bostan (in the Anti-Taurus), 292
Owah of Kharpdt, 271
Oxus, river, 161
Ozene, river (of Daghestan^, 134
Ozoorget, town and district (of Guria), 149
Paatch, the Syrian road-tax, 555
Pactolus, river of Mseonia (A'idin district),
311
Padan Aram, or Champagne Syria, also
Syria between the rivers, 1 1 8
, also Aram-naharaim, 118
—— , people of, called Syrians, 118
Padandus, ruins (on the Saihiln), 298
Pagans (in I ’ran) who worshipped the
. cow, 88
Palmyra, ruins of, 523
Palmyra, necropolis of, 525
, aqueduct o£ 526
, temple of the sun at, 524
— - , cultivation around, 580
, chain to Zelebi, from, 567
Palmyrena, district of, 540
Paid (near the Tigris), 43
Palus Tattaeus, now Tuz Golf, 347
Pambuk Kal’eh, ancient Hierapolis (in Hamid
district), 335, 337
Pamphylia, once Mopsopia, now Tekeh district,
339
Panea, ancient capital (of Gedrosia), 185
Paphos, ancient seat of the Phoenicians (in
Cyprus), 458
Paracani, descendants of Chus, 281
Paracoatliras, or El Ah was (in ’Irak Aiemi), 189^
Paradise, traditional site of, 267
-—-, limits of, included Greater and Lesser
Armenia, 267
, its various supposed localities, 268
, Euphrates and Tigris, two rivers of,
268
, probably at the source of the Euphrates
and Tigris, 268, 269
Parsetacene, one of the four divisions of Par-
thia Proper, 225
Paraetaceni, people (of Media Magna), 218
Parapamisus or Ghur mountains (eastward
of Herat), 74
Parnassus, vale of (below Yarapason, on the
Upper Halys), 4
Parretse, tribe (of the Paropamisadse), 172
Parrot, the green (of Syria), 537
Parsagarda, or Persagadis, 210
Parsca Haik, or Persian Armenia, 102
Parsi language, a cognate of the Aramaic, 84
Parsii, a tribe of the Paropamisadse, 1 7 2
Parthenius, or Bartan river, now the Chatf-
su, 321
, valley of, 329
Parthia Proper, or Comisene, part of Hyr-
cania, 225
, its extent, 225
, soil of, 225
, divisions of, 225
Parthian contingent to Xerxes, 225
— « kingdom, 225
Parthians, dexterity of the, 225
, origin of the, Celtic or Scythian, 226
Partonis, ancient (town of Gedrosia), 185
Paryadres, or Kara Bel, 68, 72
, mountains (north of Sivas), 286
Pasacarta, city (of Parthia), 225
Paschir (bezoar), 76
Pasha of three tails, his government, 380
Tagh, northern extremity of Tuz
Golf, 5, 290
Pash-t&sh, village and chasm (along; the
Frat), 42
Patara, or Xanthus river, 340
, city, site of, 341
Patra, chain (valley of the Xanthus), 342
Patroclus, tumulus of, 317
Pearl-fishery, and produce of, 648
Pearls of Karrak and Borgo the finest, 647