is yet another race of people who inhabit themountains in that quarter, and are called Curds. Someof them are Christians, and some of them are Saracens ;but they are an evil generation, whose delight it is toplunder merchants.* [Near this province is another called Mus and Merdin,producing an… … Note i.—Polo could scarcely have been justified in calling MOSUL a very greatkingdom. This is a bad habit of his, as we shall have to notice again. BadruddinLiilu, the last Atabeg of Mosul of the race of Zenghihad at the age of 96 taken sides with Hulaku,and stood high in his favour. His son Malik…
Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 · Polo family · Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 · Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? · Voyages and travels · Mongols · Inscriptions, Chinese
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