ÿþ<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name="Author" content="Vassil Karloukovski"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <title>Hudud al-'Alam - 21</title> </head> <body> <font face="Palatino Linotype"> <b><font size=+1>Hudud al-'Alam, The Regions of the World</font></b> <br><b>V. Minorsky</b> <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><b>§ 21. Discourse on the Khifchkh Country</b> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">The southern frontier of the Khifchkh marches with the Pechenegs (<i>Khifjkh rh</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">add-i junkbash ba-Bajank dradh</font></i><font face="Palatino Linotype">), and all the rest marches with the Northern Uninhabited Lands where there is no living being. The Khifchkh are a clan (<i>qaum</i>) which, having separated from the K+mk, has settled down in these parts, but the Khifchkh are more wicked (<i>badh-khktar</i>) than the K+mk. Their king (<i>malik</i>) is (appointed) on behalf of the K+mk. <br>&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">[<a href="hud_20_c.html">Previous</a>] [<a href="hud_21_c.html">Next</a>] <br>[<a href="index.html">Back to Index</a>] </font> </body> </html>