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 - 48</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>§ 48. Discourse on the Country of the Alns (al-Lan) and its Towns</b> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">East and south of it is the Sar+r; west of it, Rkm; north of it, the Gurz Sea and the Khazarian Pechenegs. All this country is broken and mountainous (</font><i><font face="Palatino Linotype">andar shikastag+-h va kkh-h</font></i><font face="Palatino Linotype">) and is favoured by </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><img SRC="line_down.gif" height=18 width=596> <br>§ 48-50&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>"The Regions of the World"</i>&nbsp;&nbsp; 161 </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">nature. Their king is a Christian. They possess 1,000 large villages. Among them there are both Christians and idol-worshippers (<i>but-parast</i>). Some of the people are mountaineers and some plain-dwellers. </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">1. KSAK, a land (<i>shahr</i>) of the Aln on the coast of the Gurz Sea. It is a pleasant place and there are merchants in it. </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">2. KHAYLN (?), the town where the king's army is stationed. </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">3. DAR-I ALN ("the Aln gate"), a town situated like a fort on the summit of a mountain. Every day 1,000 men by turn mount guard on its wall. <a href="#1.">[1]</a> <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><a NAME="1."></a><font size=-1><b>1.</b> Cf. § 5, 18 c.</font> <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">[<a href="hud_47_c.html">Previous</a>] [<a href="hud_48_c.html">Next</a>] <br>[<a href="index.html">Back to Index</a>] </font> </body> </html>