Travels to Tana and Persia : $b A narrative of Italian travels in Persia, in the 15th and 16th centuriesBarbaro, Giosofat
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Travels to Tana and Persia : $b A narrative of Italian travels in Persia, in the 15th and 16th centuries
Barbaro, Giosofat
Iran -- Description and travel; Voyages and travels
Page 24, “ne dentider”, probably “neh deria-dir”, what a sea it is,
Turkish, not Persian.
Page 70, “Occota Can”, probably “Oktai Khan”.
Page 79, Note, _for_ “Quzbvassi”, _read_ “Kas-ovahsy”.
Page 81, “Arphaemiler”, Arpa-eminy, master of the barley.
Page 136, “bosdocan”, buzdugan, a mace, a word nearly obsolete in
Constantinople; it is preserved in Wallachia.
Page 143. These columns are still standing, and have some inscriptions,
apparently Phœnician, upon them.
Page 207. Sheibani Khan; for an account of his life and death, see M.
Vambery’s _History of Bokhara_.
INDEX.
Amasia, 37
Amida (Diarbekir), 6
Ardebil, 42
Astrabad, 113
Astrakhan, 114
Barbaro, 15, 21, 33, 93
Bitlis, 8, 157
Calo Johannes, 9, 178
Casimir, King of Poland, 33
Chalderan, battle of, 59-61, 120
Contarini Ambrosio, 33
Derbend, 44, 113, 185, 186
Despina, wife of Uzun Hassan, 9, 13, 14, 18, 41, 42, 71, 146, 178, 179
Erzingan, 7
Gaza, battle of, 128-130
Genealogy of Kara Yusuf, 1
— — Shah Ismail, 5
— — Shah Abbas, 48
Hassan Beg or Uzun Hassan, 1, 73, 183
Hyder Sheikh, 42, 43, 73, 100, 101, 184
Ismail, Shah, 46, 48, 103, 122, 137, 152, 187, 190, 191, 211
Jezirah, 150
Kafur el Ghouri, 126
Kharput, 148
Khoi, 165
Kurds, 157
Malatia, battle of, 25-29, 86-88, 181, 182
Mamelukes, 129, 133
Mardin, 148
Matthias Corvinus, 34
Mazenderan, 49
Morenigo, Pietro, 21
Murad Khan, 53, 55, 105, 192
Orfa, 98, 143, 144
Pancratio, 97
Persian army, 16, 17, 65
— games, 111
Selim Sultan, 58
Sert, 156
Shebban Kara Hissar, 23
Sheibani Khan, 55, 110, 115, 117, 158, 207
Sinan Pasha, 128, 132
Suleyman Sultan, 213
Tabriz, 166, 178-224
Tahmasp Shah, 211
Tiflis, 97
Tomant Bey, 127, 131
Turkish army, 22, 62, 79, 83
Van, 159, 187
Vastan, 161
Violante, wife of C. Zeno, 9
Yakub, son of Hassan Beg, his death, 99, 183
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