Note 32 — Chapter IX · ERZERUM
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Abulfeda, Annales, edit. Reiske, iv. p. 367. For a plan and account of the ruins of the southern Arzen see Taylor in J.R.G.S. vol. xxxv. pp. 26 seq. Evliya speaks of four towns bearing the name of Erzen, viz. Erzen in Mesopotamia, Erzen Akhlat, Erzen Rum, commonly called Erzerum, and Erzenjan (Von Hammer’s translation, ii. 202). The word Erzen or Arzen is discussed by Boré, Corr. et Mémoires, Paris, 1840, vol. i. pp. 184 seq. Strecker (Zeitschrift für Erdkunde, Berlin, 1869, pp. 152, 153) seeks to identify our Artze or Artsn with the site of the modern village of Karars near the right bank of the Kara Su or Euphrates, north-west of Erzerum. ↑