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.).