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In travelling westwards up the Araxes or Araz, he had Persia on his left, to the south, Georgia on his right, to the north, and the Caspian sea and mountains of the Iron-gate were left behind him, to the east and north-east.--E 9] Westwards.--E 10] Arz-roum on the Frat or Euphrates, perhaps a corruption of Arx romanorum; as the Turks give the name of Roum to a part of Lesser Asia; and all the eastern nations call the Constantinopolitan empire Roum to this day.--E 11] Turkey, in these travels of Rubruquis, is always, to be understood as referring to the Turkish dominion in Asia Minor, of which Konieh or Iconium was the capital.--E 12] Nak-sivan, or Nag-jowan.--E 13] This must be an error for eighty.--E 14] Rubruquis here tells a long story of an Armenian prophecy, from which they expected to be freed from the iron yoke of the Tartars, by St Louis, not worth inserting.--E 15] Kurke or Kurch.--E 16] Aias-cala, in the gulf of Aiasso, or Scanderoon.--E 17] Antioch or Antakia.--E 18] Ptolomais, or St John d'Acre.--E CHAP.— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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