[435] Morad Khan. [436] Bagdad is situated on the Tigris, not the Euphrates, but the modern city of Hillah is supposed to represent the site of the ancient Babylon. [437] Jezireh ebn Omar on the Tigris. See _Travels of a Merchant_, cap. 4. [438] Orfa and Mardin. See _Travels of a Merchant_, caps. 2 and 4. [439] Hesn Keyf, Ciphas of Procopius. Baldwin de Bourg and Jocelyn de Courtenay were confined here after their capture by Sookman, the Ortokide lord of the place, and Dejekermish, lord of Mosul. See _Travels of a Merchant_, cap. 4. [440] Alla-ed Douleh. [441] Kharput. Jocelyn was again captured, together with his kinsman, by Balak, the Ortokide, and confined in this place. See _Travels of a Merchant_, cap. 3. [442] Alla-ed Douleh, written “Abnadulat” above. [443] Erzingan. [444] Ko-li Beg. [445] Zekkaria Beg. [446] Kaisarieh. [447] El Bostan, or Albistan. See Zeno, p. 54. [448] The Jihoon. [449] Marash. See Zeno, p. 54. [450] Kara Dagh. [451] Malatia. [452] Amir Beg. [453] Diarbekr. [454] Kharput. [455] Named Becarbec. [456] Khoi. [457] Sheibani Khan. See Zeno, p. 55. [458] Khorassan and Astrabad. [459] Ispahan. [460] Called Astibisti in the _Travels of a Merchant_, cap. 8. [461] Kara Bagh. [462] Shirvan and Schamachi. [463] Bairambec, the conqueror of Van and Ismael’s brother-in-law. See _Travels of a Merchant_, cap. 6. [464] Baku. [465] Astrabad. [466] Derbend. See Zeno, p. 44. [467] Demir Kapoo, or the Iron Gate. [468] Astrakhan. [469] “Sheikh, Sheikh.” In this sense it means simply a holy man, not God. [470] Rather the twelve Imaums. [471] Syria. [472] Sheibani Khan, the Usbeg. See Zeno, p. 55. [473] Irak Ajemi. [474] Ispahan. [475] Kashan. [476] Astrabad. [477] Jarood. [478] Most probably Bairambec, the king’s brother-in-law, mentioned before. [479] Custagialu, another brother-in-law of the king. [480] Astrabad, Khorassan, Herat. [481] Kashan. [482] The battle of Merv Shah Jehan, in which Sheibani Khan was killed, took place in 1514. [483] Jarood. [484] Bitlis. See Zeno, p. 8. [485] Iris. [486] At Gumish Khaneh. [487] Kharput. [488] The Van lake, _at its nearest point_, is scarcely twenty English miles from Bitlis. [489] Khoi is nearly a hundred miles from the Van lake. [490] This is the shortest and most direct route from Tocat to Persia and quite different from the one just mentioned. [491] Zeno, p. 60. [492] Casveen. [493] Khafour el Ghouri, called Campson Gauri later on. [494] We have an instance of this sort in our own annals, viz., the presents sent by the Dauphin to Henry V. [495] Baiburt. [496] These were the latest conquests made by Selim from Persia. [497] Euxaghly, near Malatia, called Ciamassum by Knolles, who says it was situated near the confluence of the Melas (Kara Su) with the Euphrates. [498] Kaisarieh. [499] Knolles says that Aladeules was betrayed by his nephew, Alis Beg, who became the Turkish governor of the country. [500] Kazi Asker.