The Successors of Genghis Khan - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian ...

THE SUCCESSORS OF GENGHIS KHAN
fourth rank, jo;121 fifth rank, ;122 sixth rank, giin;123 seventh
rank, hin;124 eighth rank, j«n;125 [and] ninth rank, sun.126
The first rank they give to a large country like Rum, Pars, or
Baghdad, the second to a place which is the residence of the ruler, and
so on downward, the seventh rank being given to small towns, the
eighth to boroughs, and the ninth to villages and farmsteads. Villages
and farmsteads are also called ma.dm.127 Coastal harbors they call
matau.12*
This procedure and organization does not exist in other lands. Most
of the affairs of the country are administered in this way. And God
knows best.