Mamelukes was carefully written by a _Cadi Lascher_,[525] who was with the army, to a Cadi in Constantinople, and translated from the Turkish into Tuscan on the 22nd October, 1517. In 1524, in the month of August, news came that the celebrated Sophi monarch was dead, and that his younger son had seized the power, but was opposed by the elder with a great number of soldiers. Ismael had left four sons, the eldest named Schiacthecmes,[526] the second Alcas el Mirza,[527] the third Päerham[528] el Mirza, the fourth Sam el Mirza; Mirza being a title meaning prince. The eldest was then fourteen years old, and his father had left him as a governor a man, named Chiocha Sultan, to govern the kingdom till the boy came of age to rule. This regent was wise, and of a great influence. But it came to pass that some of the other nobles, from envy of the regent, began to make war on one another, and having taken the field, came as far as the tent of Schiacthecmes,[529] wishing to slay the regent; but the matter was compromised. FOOTNOTES [340] Hulakoo Khan, son and successor of the great Zingis, and the conqueror of Bagdad. [341] Ajemi. [342] Hassan Beg. [343] This action was fought near Malatia, at a point previous to the Euphrates entering the Gerger Gorge (Elegia). The islands do not now exist, and they were probably (considering the time of year) only sandbanks left by the fall of the river. [344] Calo Johannes. See Zeno, p. 9. [345] Despina Khatoon; _i.e._, “Lady” or “Queen” Despina. [346] Hassan Beg. [347] Sheikh Hyder. See Zeno, p. 48. [348] Present Kharput. See _Travels of a Merchant_, cap. 3; and Zeno, p. 42. [349] Diarbekr. [350] Amid (Diarbekr). The Church of San Giorgio, or Mar Jurjees, was an old Jacobite church, but is now in ruins. See Zeno, p. 42. [351] It was David Comnenus who was the last Emperor of Trebizond, Calo Johannes, his elder brother, having died before the Turkish invasion. [352] Trebizond was taken by Mahomet II in 1461. [353] Ibrahim. [354] Peer Ahmed. See Zeno, p. 15. [355] Shebban Kara Hissar. See Zeno, p. 23. [356] Niksar? [357] The city of Konieh; but the text denotes a river rather, probably the Iris. [358] Tchelebee or the noble, a common title among the Ottoman princes. [359] Yusuf Khan. [360] Tocat. [361] Achmet Pasha. [362] Afioom Kara Hissar. Zeno, p. 19. [363] Cutayeh. [364] Daoud. [365] Achmet Pasha. [366] Amasia. See Zeno, p. 37. [367] Bajazet Tchelebee. [368] Quzbvassi. The Goose’s Plain. [369] Djim or Zizim. See Zeno, p. 22. [370] Amurath. [371] Ikindjis. [372] The Ikindjis, irregular troops. [373] Amasia, birthplace of Strabo and Mithridates. [374] Sivas. See Zeno, p. 23. [375] The Iris or Kizzil Irmak. [376] Niksar. [377] Koili Hissar. See Zeno, p. 23. [378] Shebban Kara Hissar. The alum mines are still worked, but yield little revenue. See Zeno, p. 23. [379] Probably Egin. See Zeno, p. 23. [380] Erzingan. [381] Malatia. [382] Khalul.