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Rh very moderate antiquity, must also destroy the pretensions which are raised with regard to the name of Kúthámí. Now numberless traits prove that Yarbúká is a Chaldæan of comparatively modern times. He speaks of the city of Kazvin, which appears to have been founded in the time of the Sassinides;