The Legate of Justinian now found it necessary to erect his castle in that safe position, and to build a church there, for the hermits living in the neighbourhood. That this alone was sufficient to draw many new hermits thither, and to found a new belief as to the position of the Mountain of the Law, if this were not already there, is quite comprehensible. But as to how the two opinions in the next following centuries came together, we have no certain testimony whatever. Under any circumstances, one would have to take care, if, after the founding of Pharan, the mountain Sinai is often mentioned, to understand by it the Gebel Mûsa. As a rule, the whole range of mountains in the peninsula is intended by it. When, for example, already in the year 536, therefore probably before the building of the church, at the _Concilium sub Mema_, at Constantinople, a _Theonas presbyter et legatus S. montis Sinai et deserti Raitha et S. ecclesiæ Pharan_ (Θεωνῦς ἐλεῷ Θεοϋ πρεσβύτερος καὶ ἀποκρισίάριος τοϋ ἁγίου ὄρους Σινᾶ καὶ τῆς ἐρήμου Ῥαιθοϋ καὶ τῆς κατὰ Φαράν ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας. _Harduin_, vol. ii. p. 1281) is signed, the Church of Pharan would probably be first named as undoubtedly the most important centre and bishop’s seat, if the monks all around the vicinity were not looked upon as the more important, and therefore put first. Le Quien (vol. iii. p. 735) mentions the _Episcopi Pharan sive montis Sinai_ in one series, and as the earliest with the latter title the above-mentioned Bishop Jorius (†1033). Since then, and even since Eutychius (c. 940), the denomination of the single mountain of Gebel Mûsa as Sinai is certainly undoubted. INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES. A. Abahuda, 270. Abatou, 123. Abdebab, 146. Abd el Qurna, 274, 309. Abdîn, 187. Abke, 269. Abu Dôm, 247, 256. Abu el Abás, 185. Abu Hammed, 132, 137, 146, 148. Abu Haras, 132, 178. Abu Hashîn, 151. Abu Nugara, 146. Abu Roash, 35, 64. Abu Shar, 330. Abu Simbel, 270. Abu Tleh, 238. Abu Zelîmeh, 333, 348. Abydos, 94, 114. Acca, 349. Adererât, 146. Agamîeh, 88. Ἀin el Haramîeh, 392. Aithi, 395. Akoris, 100. Alabastron, 113. Alexandria, 7, 11, 389. Amâra, 266. Amarna, 94, 111, 113, 374. Ambukôl, 259. Anîve, 274. Antinoe, 110. Arbagi, 177. Argo Island, 262. Argôusene, 264. Asasîf, 297. Assuan, 99, 118. Assur, 157. Astaboras, 152. Atbara, 152. Atfeh, 13. Athirib (Athribis), 389. Axum, 91. B. Bachît, 258. Bahîuda, Desert of, 237. Bahr bela mâ, 85, 140. Bahr Jussuf, 82, 87. Bahr Sherkieh, 85. Bahr Wardani, 85. Bâlbek, 407. Barkal, 245. Begerauîeh, 156, 160. Behbet el hager (Iseum), 389. Belled e’ Nûba, 255. Bellel, 255. Benihassan, 94, 107, 110. Benisuef, 93, 374. Ben Naga, 160, 162, 165, 213, 217. Bersheh, 94, 110, 113. Berut, 394. Beth el Walli, 124. Bethin, 392. Biahmu, 87. Bigeh, 119. Bireh, 392. Birqet el Qorn, 82, 83, 86, 88. Bisheh, 88. Blue River, 172. Britân, 407. Bsherreh, 414. Bulaq, 14. Byblus, 418. C.