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 - 52</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>§ 52. Discourse on the Country of B.rdhs</b> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">East of it is the river&nbsp;til; south of it, the Khazars; west of it, the V.n.nd.r [sic]; north of it, the Turkish Pechenegs (<i>Bachank-i Turk</i>). They are a people professing the creed of the Ghkz. They own felt-huts, and burn their dead. They obey the Khazars (<i>andar&nbsp;t</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">'at-i Khazariyn</font></i><font face="Palatino Linotype">). Their wealth is in weasel-furs (<i>pkst-i dala</i>). They have two kings who keep separate from each other (<i>naym+zand</i>). <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">[<a href="hud_51_c.html">Previous</a>] [<a href="hud_52_c.html">Next</a>] <br>[<a href="index.html">Back to Index</a>] </font> </body> </html>