Soleim&n, Tagh, branch, from the Hindu
Kush, extent of, 162, 294
, crossed by the Salt mountains, 162
Solma, peak (in Jebel Shammar), 627
Solocler, port (in Tarabuzun district), 306,
307
Solomon, canal of (from the Upper Tigris),
27
, pool of, 495
’s bath (on the river Kurahy), 519
Solyma, mount, or Tak talu (in Tekeh district),
383
Soneida, 510
Sonmeany, town and port (of Lus), 179
Soon-Dara, site of (in Upper Mesopotamia),
116
Sophene, ancient (now the district of Khar-
piit), 69, 271
Sophon, Sabanjah-gol (eastward of Ismid
inlet), 322
Sosar-chai (in Azerbaijan), 219
Sosirate, or Elymais, capital (of the Cosssei,
supposed to be represented by Susdn on
the K&run), 206
Soucira, ruins of (in El Lowa, Haouran),
504
Souf, village (on Jebel’Ajulun, eastward of
the Jordan), 513
Soug&it, or Bielaio, white water (in Baku
district), 133
So-ug Bolak, town (in Azerbaijan), 220
Souk, village (on the river Barrada), 502
Soukh-Boulakh, peak (in Erivan district),
146
Sour, castle and temple of (in El Lowa,
Haouran), 504
Souriyyanih language, 660
Sowad, or cultivated portion of I ’rak, 254
---- , tribute of, 257
Sowanli Dereh, excavations (N.E. of Mount
Argseus), 291
Spaco, a Median word, used by the people
on the shores of the Caspian, 141
Speer, or elder of the Afghans, 175
Sphiri, village (in Aleppo district), description
of, 413
Spices of Arabia, 590
Ssleib, or hunting Arabs, 674
Starah, village (in El Afladj, district of
Nedjd), 633
St. Stephen, gate of (at Jerusalem), 497
St. Simon Stylites, convent of (in Aleppo
district), 423.
Stink stones, and use of (found near the
Dead Sea), 567
Sub-bil, western portion of the HaV canal,
36
Su-Chati, river, or Bartan (Parthenius),
(eastern side of Boli district), 329
Sueta, ancient district, part of the Decapolis
(now. Ez Zueit), 512
Suffeeism in Persia, 88
Sufurieh, ancient Sapphoris, or Dio Caesarea,
or Tsippori (in Galilee), 463
Sugar cane, in Syria, 456, 537
Sughra, port of Jaffea, population, &c.
(south coast of Arabia), 635
Suka, ’Ain-el- (in Tripoli district), 450
Súk-el-Khamís (in the district of San’á), 621
Súku-1-Basír (in Hadramadt), 637
Suleiman Wadi (in Judea), 391, 488
Suleimáníyah, town and district (of Kurdis-
tán), 33, 70, 107,, 120
Suleimánlú, ruins (in Kermiyán eyalet), 335
Suleniyeh, El, town in Wádí El Khardj (in
Nedjd), 631
Sultáníyah, plain and town (in ’Irak Ajemi),
190,212
Sultan Oni, district (in Kermiyán eyalet),
321
r—- - , sanjáklik, 333
, or In-Oghi, description of, 333, 334
Tágh, in Kóniyeh eyalet, 294, 345,
346
Sumeichah, village (on the Dujeil canal of
Mesopotamia), 29.
Sumeisát, town, 45, 106, 350
— —, river below, 46
, zeugma, or passage of, on the Upper
Euphrates, 46, 114, 544
, district, 350
Sunk, village, 11 miles S.W. of Aleppo, 410
Sunnie belief, &c., 86
, Múhammedan religion, 111
religion, opposed in Arabia, 677
Sunnies in Syria, number of, 558
Superstition of the Arabs, 677
Supin, or Sapan Tágh (in the Anti-Taurus),
42, 69
Sur, or Tsúr, and Tyre, description of, 480
, description, and ancient names of, 481
, population of, 480
, village (in El Ledja), 505
Sura, ruins (near Thapsacus), 416
Sureña, and Crassus, at Basilius river (in
Upper Mesopotamia), 115
Surhud, or cold mountains, traverse Mek-
rán, 162, 163
Surkun, a’yanlik of (in Shapán O’ghlu district),
305
Surmenah, district (of Tarábuzún), 307
Surmudda, wells (in El Woschem, district
of Nedjd), 629
Surredge, town in the Khaulun (district of
San’á), 620
Surur, town (in Batna, district of ’Omán),
644
Sus, or Susa, ruins of ancient, 60, 195
, Susan, or Shushan, ancient capital of,
203
, derived from a lily, 203, 204
, ancient Cissiana, part of Chus, 204
Susa, 60
Susán, Susa, or Sus, 60, 195
, on the Kerkhah, 206
, Elymais, or Sosirate, capital of the
Cossaei, 206
Susiana (now Khúzistan), 120, 203, 204,205
Su-Sighirlí-sú, (ancient Macestus), tributary
(of the Sakáríyah), 322
Susim, ancient, or Sisim, once near Ashta-
roth (plain of Haouran), 511, 539
Suweidiyeh, port of Antioch, or Bab-el-Jisr,
48, 429
Suweik, port (in Batna, district of Omán),
645
Suweinit, Wádí, or Bethel valley (northward
of Jerusalem), 488
Swanets, a tribe of Mingrelia, 149
Syria between the rivers, or Aram-nahaim,
also Padan Aram, or Champagne Syria,
118
extended from Babylon to the Issus,
301
connects other countries geographically
and historically, 383
, its present shape and name, 383
, its superficies diversified, 384
, lakes and valley of the Dead Sea in,
384, 402
, mountain ridge and water-shed of,
384
, principal branches of, 384
, southern slope of, shown by the Nahr
Lietani, 398, 399
, general observations upon, 406
, now in four pásháliks, formerly in five
subdivisions, 406
, climate of, various, 533
, cold region of, 533
, climate of the coast of, 533, 534
, soil of the highlands, plains, deserts,
&c., of, 535
, alluvium deposit in, 535
, neglected tracts in (called Barr by the
Arabs), described, 535
, desert tracts of, 536
, minerals of, 536
, camel and other domestic animals of,
536
■, wild animals of, 536
-----, vegetable productions of, 537
, birds of prey, and other birds of, 537
, grains cultivated in, 537
, imports and trade of, 538
, capabilities of the country, 538
—1—, comparative geography of, 539
, ancient kingdoms of, 540
, ancient people of, from two stocks,
Ham and Shem, 541
—— , language of the ancient people, branch
of the Aramaic, 541
, ancient people, at Nábulus, and among
the Ansarians, 542
, conquests and mixtures of the people
in, 544
— , Arabs and other nomadic people of,
545
—— , connexion with Assyria, 544
, No wars, or gipsies, in south-eastern,
545
Jews remaining in, their state and
number, 545, 546
, manners, &c., of the Mitaulis in, 547
——, character and social state of, 547
, Christian sects of Armenians, Greeks,
and Jacobites in, 547
, Maronites in Syria, and their social
state, &c¿, 547, 548
, Druse districts and people in, 548
Syria, dwellings, religion, and social state of
the Druses in, 549, 550
—— , dress of the Druses in, 557 * , silver horn worn by the Druse women,
557
, occupations of the Druse women, 557
------------, of the men of the Druses, 557
, Kurds in, dwellings, &c., of, 551
, Turkomans in, tents, social state, &c.,
of, 551, 552
, Turks in, government, &c., of, 553
, nomadic and agricultural people of,
554
— , administration of justice, tenures, and
inheritance in, 555
, taxes in, 556
, avanias and conscriptions in, 556
, state of the peasants in, 556
---- , population of, 558
, Haj caravan, from thence more numerous
than that which goes from Africa, 688
— of Damascus, founded by Resen,
position of, 540
of Rehob, or Rohob, afterwards Geshur,
position of, 541
of Tob, or Ish-tob, position of, 541
Syriac language, 83
Syrians, 111
, inhabitants of Syria between the
rivers, called, 118
, ancient, of Anti-Casius, &c., 543
------------, houses, dress, and occupations of
the, 543
------------, peaceable character of the, 544
------------, religious rites of the, 544
Syro-Medians (in Media Magna), 218
Szalkhat, ancient Salka, ruined town (southeastward
of Jebel Haouran), 508
Szalt, principal town of the Belka, description
of, 516
, scenery near, 516
Szananamein, Es, or the Images, 511
Szolout Arabs (of El Ledja), 504
Szyr, ruins (south-eastward of Szalt), 517
Tab, river (between Khuzistân and Fars),
201, 202 • -, upper branches of, 208
Tabala, city, 311, 620, 632
Tabânli chai, affluent (of the Angora sd),
296
Tabariyah, city, description of, 477
, lake, or Gennezareth, 400
Tabasseran, district (of Daghestan), 131,
132,133
Taberistan and Demyawend districts, taxes
of, 258
Tabierie (a division of Parthia), 225
Tabor, mount, 390, 464
Tabriz, plain of, 219
, city, capital of Azerbaijan, 220
, city, description of, 220
, trade of, 2 2 1
, temperature of, 221
Tadmor, mercantile advantages of, 526
, history of, 526 .