(C) Aegean coast 247 _lesm_|_ire_: =Smyrna (ibid., 653). IX. Armenia, Caucasia, and Southeastern Russia Mountain 248 Mt. Ararat is labeled _larche de noe_. Rivers 249 A river connecting the Sea of Azof with the Caspian is shown on CA and CE, but without the branches reaching the Black Sea; on Piz. this river is named Flm’ Cicopo (the Cicopa of CA and other portolan maps being a north branch of the Kuban delta; Kret., Port., 646);=Kuban River (ibid.). Caspian Sea 250 _Mare de Abachu_(?) (Sea of Baku): Mar de Sarra e de Bacu, CA; Mar de Sala e de Bacu, CE. Edifices (A) West Coast of the Caspian Sea 251 Illeg.: =? 252 _famach_|_i_: Siamachi, Vat. (Pullé, 9);=?Shemakha (ibid., 8, n. 4). 253 _baram_|_achi_: Barmachu, CA;=? 254 _abachu_: Bacu, CA;=Baku. (B) Between the Black and Caspian Seas 255 _porte_ | _deuee_(?): ?Porte de Fer (see 72 and Hallb., 414). 256 _armin_|_ia_. 257 _armin_|_ia_: Dupl. of 256. (C) Coasts of Sea of Azof and Black Sea 258 _..na_(?): =?Tana, important medieval commercial city at mouth of the Don;=mod. Azof (Kret., Port., 645; Hallb., 503-504). 259 _trab_|_exon_|_da_: =Trebizond (Kret., Port., 648). Place Names in Southeastern Russia 260 _seuastopoli_: =anct. and med. Sebastopolis on coast of Abkhasia (Kret., Port., 647). 261 _auogaxi_: =Abkhasia (ibid., 646). 262 _mengreli_: Mingrelians or Mingrelia (ibid., 647). 263 _zichia_: =“regional name of Circassia” (ibid., 646). 264 _copa_: =Copa (ibid.). 265 _matraca_: =Matrega, Genoese trading town on Taiman Peninsula (ibid.). X. Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea 266 _Ma....dicho_: Mare Indicho. 267 _Mare de persia._ 268 _M......._: Mare rosso. 269 ... _Taprobana_: Trapobana, CA, CE; the Taprobane of the ancient geographers was Ceylon; in the Middle Ages the name was probably applied to Sumatra (Cordier, CA, 57-58; Kret., CE, 107; for suggested identifications of places shown in Trapobana on CA see Gerini, 646-647). 270 _famda_|_bo_(?): ?Regio Femarum (for Feminarum) on island of Iana, CA, which is perhaps a reflection of Polo’s story of the Male and Female Islands (ii, 404-405); see also Gerini, 647, n. 2. 271 Illeg.: =? 272 _m..._(?): ?Malao, on both Trapobana and Iana, CA; Mallao, on Jaua, CE:=?. 273 _leuia_: Leroa, on Trapobana, CA;=? 274 _y. caina_: Caynam, CA, CE;=?Andaman Islands (Buchon and Tastu, p. 137). 275 _ixole doue na_[se] _p_ | _et altre spe_[z] _ie_ (islands where pepper and other spices are produced): Legend on CA runs: “In the sea of the Indies are 7548 islands of which we cannot enumerate here the marvelous riches, not only in gold and silver but also in spices and precious stones”; from Polo (ii, 264), who also, like Leardo, mentions pepper.