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 GENERAL INDEX

��Chasht-khvaran, station supplanted Chersonesus, Greek colony, now Chingiz Khan, ravages of, at Choarene, Greek name of Khvar, Chosroes, see Khusrau Clavijo, mention of Nishapur by, visited the shrine of Imam Kiza, Comisene, the district of Kumish, Constantinople, general impressions the supposed sarcophagus of Alex- constitution, granting of a, in Persia,

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Mullah, 178°, 190^ Dakiki, predecessor of Firdausi, relation of, to Kumis, 162, 177^ accounts of, by Oriental geog- Darius I, crossed the Bosporus on Darius III (Codomannus), defeat Delhi, the marble base of a Peacock Derbent, the two great walls at, the citadel (Narin Kalah) at, dervish, a wandering, at Nishapur, Div-i Safid, combat of Rustam with Diz Gumbadan, fortress, 172», 213" dogs, formerly used as scavengers Dumas, Alexandre, account of the

E Eichwald, account of the Baku fire- Evil Eye, the weed sipand used to Farat, see Frat Farid ad-Din Attar, tomb of, near Fath Ali Shah, Peacock Throne at Teheran said to have been the chief mosque at Semnan Firdausi, associates Nishapur with fire-temple, the famous, at Baku, a possible Zoroastrian, near possible site of an ancient, on Zoroaster said to have built a, Firuz Kuh Pass, not the ancient floods, on the route from Rai to

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