IX. Armenia, Caucasia, and Southeastern Russia

Mountain

248 Mt. Ararat is labeled larche de noe.

Rivers

249 A river connecting the Sea of Azof with the Caspian is shown on CA and CE, but without the branches reaching the Black Sea; on Piz. this river is named Flm’ Cicopo (the Cicopa of CA and other portolan maps being a north branch of the Kuban delta; Kret., Port., 646);=Kuban River (ibid.).

Caspian Sea

250 Mare de Abachu(?) (Sea of Baku): Mar de Sarra e de Bacu, CA; Mar de Sala e de Bacu, CE.

Edifices

(A) West Coast of the Caspian Sea

251 Illeg.: =?

252 famach|i: Siamachi, Vat. (Pullé, 9);=?Shemakha (ibid., 8, n. 4).

253 baram|achi: Barmachu, CA;=?

254 abachu: Bacu, CA;=Baku.

(B) Between the Black and Caspian Seas

255 porte | deuee(?): ?Porte de Fer (see [72] and Hallb., 414).

256 armin|ia.

257 armin|ia: Dupl. of 256.

(C) Coasts of Sea of Azof and Black Sea

258 ..na(?): =?Tana, important medieval commercial city at mouth of the Don;=mod. Azof (Kret., Port., 645; Hallb., 503-504).

259 trab|exon|da: =Trebizond (Kret., Port., 648).

Place Names in Southeastern Russia

260 seuastopoli: =anct. and med. Sebastopolis on coast of Abkhasia (Kret., Port., 647).

261 auogaxi: =Abkhasia (ibid., 646).

262 mengreli: Mingrelians or Mingrelia (ibid., 647).

263 zichia: =“regional name of Circassia” (ibid., 646).

264 copa: =Copa (ibid.).

265 matraca: =Matrega, Genoese trading town on Taiman Peninsula (ibid.).