Shahrisabz, `Abdullah (son of Amīr Kazghan) defeated at, 166; attacked by Nasrullah, 214; conquered, 219; revolt, 220; subdued by General Abramoff, 256. Shāpūr (brother of Ardashīr), 22. Shāpūr I., 23. Shāpūr, conquest of, ascribed to Shāpūr I., 23. Shāsh, king of, 61. Shaybānī Khān (Shāhī Beg), 184; Shaybānides (_see Uzbegs_). Shaykh Nūr-ed-Dīn, revolt against Khalīl Sultan, 175. Shen-Yü, title borne by Juen-Juen chiefs, 21 _note_. Shi`ites, origin of, 81; revolt in Khorāsān, 91; in Daylam, 95; Ma´mūn, Shāh Isma`īl, etc. (_see those titles_). Shugnān, Sakas established in, 17. Shukovski, Prof., _cited_ 141 _note_. Sibir captured, 239. Sīhūn (_see Sir Daryā_). Sinbad, 90. Sir Daryā, northern boundary of Turkestān, 3; chain of Russian forts on, 245. Sīstān (Drangiana), occupied by Sakas, 18; Pīrūz made governor, 25; Arab expedition, 38; conquered by Shāh Rukh, 174. Siyāwush, 115 _note_. Skobeleff, Michael Dmitriavitch, governor of Kokand, 260; Russian policy in Central Asia, 339 _note_; anecdote, 344, _note_; exploits, 288. Smolensk, 230. Soghd, assistance rendered to Bokhārā, 42; war with Kutayba, and treaty, 51, 54; revolt against chief, 60; captured by Zahīr ud-Dīn Bāber, 184. =Soghdiana=--annexation by Cyrus I., 4; revolt against Alexander, 7; subdued by Alexander, 9; loss of Grecian power in, 18; expulsion of Sakas by Yué-Chi, and re-occupation, 16, 17, 18; revolt in, and invasion by Kutayba, 60; retreats of Asad, 72. Spitamenes, Bessus betrayed by, 6; rebellion against Alexander the Great, 7–8; death, 9. Stadium, definition, 7 _note_. Stasanor, 10. Stewart, Colonel C., _cited_ 315 _note_. Stoddart, Colonel, mission to Bokhārā, and death, 217–18. Stolietoff, General, Krasnovodsk founded by, 262. Strabo, _cited_ 13 _note_. Strogonoff, 238. Stumm, Hugo, _cited_ 238, 244 _notes_, _passim_. Stylites, Joseph, _cited_ 26. Su (_see Scythians, Sakas_). _Sū_, definition, 332. Subhān Kulī Khān, 196, 197, 198. Sukhrā (Zermihr), 26. Sulaymān Shāh (governor of Khwārazm), 138. Sulaymān (son of `Abd ul-Melik), accession to Caliphate, 61; Kutayba’s letters to, 61; death, 64. Sultan `Ali, 178. Sultan Girāy, 183. Sultan Hamza, 186. Sultan Husayn Baykara (Husayn Mīrzā), 184. Sultan Jānībeg (_see Jānībeg_). Sultan Khalīl, 173–76. Sultan Mohammad Khwārazm Shāh, 145 _note_. Sultan Shāh Mahmūd, 145. Suyunjik, 189. Suzdal, 234. Syria, conquered by Arabs, 37. Tabari, _cited_ 25 _note_, _passim_. Tabaristān, 67, 68. Tāhir ibn `Amr, 111. Tāhirides, the, Tāhir, 99, 100; Talha and `Abdullah, 100; Tāhir II., 103; defeated by Ya`kūb, 105; length of rule, 102; Persian literary language in time of, 180. Taigir, Ye-liu Ta-shi, also known as, 137. T’ai-tsu (Apaoki), 137 _note_.