"الجغرافيا الشرقية لابن حوقل، رحّالة عربي من القرن العاشر" [‎١‎٥‎٦] (٣٨٨/٢٠٩)

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Description of Armenia, and Jran x and Azerbaijan.
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A ll the boundaries of these countries, Kouhestan
on the east, and the banks of the Caspian Sea, and the provinces
adjacent to ^c;l Armen, and Alan, and ^j\ Aran, and
the mountains of O'bsTv 5 Kipchak*, and the borders of Irak and
Jezireh, on the south ; all these boundaries we lay before the
reader in the annexed map.
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Ardehil is the most considerable city of Azerbaijan: it
is about half a farsang in length and breadth, and contains the
Governor 's palace : it has walls, and four gates, and is a pleasant
town, and well supplied with provisions. It has extensive sub
urbs ; and within two farsang of it there is a mountain called
Seilan, which is never free from snow either in winter
or summer.
* oti-o Kihshak, according to the Arabian mode of expressing the Persian or
Turkish letters Ba and Chim.
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