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556 HISTORY OF PERSIA
471 Kobad's first ; campaign, 478-479 ;
Kobad's second campaign, 480-483 ;
Noshirwan makes peace, 487 ;
successes
in Africa and Italy, 487-488 ; expedition
of Noshirwan, 488-491 Noshirwan's
third war, 494-495 campaign
;
by Hormisdas IV., 516-517; restoration
of Khusru Parviz, 519-521 ;
war
with Persia, 521 condition under
;
Heraclius, 523-524
Romieu, Colonel, French officer, ii.
" 401
Roof of the World
"
(the Pamirs),
i. 1 5
Roshan, province of Afghanistan, ii. 306
Ross, Prof. E. D., i. 359 footnote, 91 footnote,
ii.
144 footnote, 196
98 footnote ;
footnote
Roumania, i. 410
Roxana, i. 233, 234
Roxana (wife of Alexander the Great),
i.
289, 304, 306, 310, 325
Royal Road, constructed in reign of
Darius, i. 175
Rub-al- Khali (desert of Arabia),
ii. 2
Rubruquis, William of; mission to the
Mongols, ii. 146, 169-170, 181
Rudabah, Princess, mother of Rustam, i.
143-144
Rudagi, Persian poet, ii. 132
Rudbar, district of, i. 12, 298
Rukh, Shah, son of Tamerlane, ii. 155 ;
kills Shah Mansur, 206 ;
216
;
his
reign and achievements, 217-218 ; 219-
220, 223, 236, 238
Rukh, Shah, grandson of Nadir Shah ;
reign of, ii. 371 et seq. ;
death of, 390 ;
39 1 * 392
Rukn-u-Din, last Grand Master of the
Assassins, ii. 172
Rusas, King of Urartu, i. 136
Russia ; Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission,
i. 4 ; 176 ; Mongol invasion,
ii.
144 ; Mongol campaign against
Abaga, 178 ;
Tamerlane's invasion,
207 first
; embassy to Persia, 300-301 ;
treaty with Turkey for dismemberment
of Persia, 328 ; Caspian provinces
evacuated by, 346 ; supports the
Lesghians, 361 ; closing of British trade
across the Caspian, 365-366 j Aga
Mohamed expels Russian expedition,
386 ;
invasion of Persia, 390-391 ;
annexation
of Georgia, 410 ;
Persian
campaigns against, 41 1-412 descent on
;
Gilan, 412-413 ; battle of Aslanduz,
413; treaty of Gulistan, 413-414;
General Yermelofr's mission, 414-415 ;
seizure of Gokcha, 416-417 ;
battles of
Shamkar and Ganja, 417-418 ; capture
of Erivan and Tabriz, 419 ; treaty of
Turkomanchai, 419-420 ;
murder of
Grebaiodov, 421-422 ; Anglo-Russian
antagonism, 424-425 ;
naval station at
Ashurada, 447 ; negotiations with
Persia, 449-450 advance
;
in Central
Asia, 458-459 first Khivan
;
expedition,
459-460 further advances and ; conquest
of Khiva, 460-462 ; crushing of the
Turkoman, 463-464 Cossack
;
brigade,
475 Russian
; bank, 480-481 ;
Persian
loans, 481-482 ;
Customs tariff, 483 ;
Anglo-Russian rivalry, 485-486
Rustam, the champion, i. 144, 145 death
;
of, 146; 422, 511, 512
ii.
; 84, 206
Rustam, Persian Commander-in-Chief, i.
534; defeat and death, 536-538
Rustam, Khan, Persian general, ii. 315
Rustam, Mohamed, Persian general, ii.
310
Rustam Sultan, Chief of Kisht, ii.
374
Saadat Khan, Indian Prince, ii.
353
Saba, now Sava, q.-v.
Sabaeans, the, ii. 3
Sabaktagin, founder of Ghazna Dynasty,
ii. 91, 95, 96
Sabeanism, ii. 3, 4
Sabr-Ishu, patriarch, i. 528
Sabzawar, i. 37, ii.
109 ; 155, 202, 258
Sad (Arab leader), i.
535, 536; battle of
Cadesia, 536-538; capture of Madain,
538-539; subjugation of Mesopotamia,
540; n ii.
Sad bin Zangi, Atabeg, ii. 124, 127, 128,
165
Sadi, Musharrif-u-Din, the poet, ii. 229 ;
career of, 230-232
Sadik Khan, Zand, ii. 377, 378, 391-393
Sadr-u-Din, Safavi, ii. 240
Sadyattes, King of Lydia, i. 137
Safa, hill of, ii. 4, 18
Safavi Dynasty, ii. 221 ;
rise of, 240-
255 decline
;
of, 296 et seq. ;
overthrow
of, 312-320 massacre of Safavi ;
princes,
326
Saftar Dynasty of Sistan, i. 144 ; rise of,
ii.8 4
SafFarids, the, ii. 83
Sari, son of Abbas II., vide Sulayman,
Shah
Safid Rud,
i. 22
Safi Mirxa, son of Shah Abbas, ii. 267,
297, 326
Safi, Shah, reign of, ii. 297-300
Safi-u-Din, Safavi, ii. 240
Sagartia, i. 171
Sagartians, the, i. 56, 210
Sahag, King of Armenia, i. 473
Sahand, volcano of, i. 7
Said, father of Khalirl, ii. 28
Said Ali Khan, Chapashlu, ii. 339 footnote,
341 footnote
Said Mohamed, son of Yar Mohamed
Khan, ii. 449, 452, 455 M
Saif (Himyarite monarch), ii. 8