[904] Ancient Persia is the modern province of Fars, Pars, or Paras; our Persia being much more extensive than the ancient country designated by the same name.
[905] The Susians inhabited the modern Khosistan.
[906] The Babylonians occupied the present Irak-Arabi.
[907] Now al-Djezira.
[908] Viz. the Ethiopians occupying the territory from Syene to Abyssinia.
[909] The Troglodyte Arabians.
[910] The Cilicians occupied the modern Itch-iili and Aladeuli; the Trachiotæ or mountaineers, the former of these countries.
[911] Pamphylia is the modern Tekieh.
[912] Or Oases, according to the common spelling.
[913] That is to say, from Tunis to Gibraltar. The Maurusians, called by the Latins Mauritanians, occupied the present Algiers and Fez.