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 - 51</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>§ 51. Discourse on the Country of Burt</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">s [read: <i>Bulghr</i>!]</font></b><font face="Palatino Linotype"> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">East and south of it are the Ghkz; west of it, the river&nbsp;til; north of it, the Pecheneg country. The people are Muslims and have a particular (<i>khs</i></font><i><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font></i><i><font face="Palatino Linotype">s</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">a</font></i><font face="Palatino Linotype">) language. The king is called Mus (?). They own tents and felt-tents and are divided into three hordes (<i>gurkh</i>): *BARCHjLA (spelt: </font> <i><font face="Palatino Linotype">B.hd</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">wla</font></i><font face="Palatino Linotype">), ISHKIL (<i>Ashgil</i>? &amp;c.), and B.LKR. They are all at war with each other but if an enemy appears they become reconciled (<i>yr</i>). <a href="#1.">[1]</a> <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><a NAME="1."></a><font size=-1><b>1.</b> Immediately after this must follow the paragraph on the Bulghr towns, wrongly placed between §§ 53 and 54.</font> <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">[<a href="hud_50_c.html">Previous</a>] [<a href="hud_51_c.html">Next</a>] <br>[<a href="index.html">Back to Index</a>] </font> </body> </html>