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A07559	The history of the vvarres betvveene the Turkes and the Persians. Written in Italian by Iohn-Thomas Minadoi, and translated into English by Abraham Hartvvell. Containing the description of all such matters, as pertaine to the religion, to the forces to the gouernement, and to the countries of the kingdome of the Persians. Together with the argument of euery booke, & a new geographicall mappe of all those territories. A table contayning a declaration aswell of diuerse new and barbarous names and termes vsed in this history, as also how they were called in auncient times. And last of all, a letter of the authors, wherein is discoursed, what cittie it was in the old time, which is now called Tauris, and is so often mentioned in this history; Historia della guerra fra Turchi, et Persiana. English	Minadoi, Giovanni Tommaso, 1545-1618.; Hartwell, Abraham, b. 1553.; Whitwell, Charles, engraver.	1595 (1595)	STC 17943; ESTC S122232	286,033	442

authority of rule and gouernement measuring the state of this realme as it was when these warres began we say that for the North part beginning at the very vttermost East of the sea of Baccu and coasting all that Sea and then entring into Seruan and Georgia euen vnto Mengrelli and so a little lower vnto Chars lying in the champaine country vnder the mountains of Periardi called Chielder where also is erected a Castell called Childerum for defence of the borders you haue the description of all that the Persians possesse on that syde From thence drawing a lyne by the East and rolling the same ouer the Lake Actamar and ouer Coy in the champeine of Caldaran then carrying the same lyne towardes the South to the Citty of Salmas and a little higher towards Seresul euen to the channell of Euphrates there is comprehended all the West parte of this kingdome From the channell of the sayde riuer where the Bassora lyeth coasting all along that syde of the sea euen vntill the mountaines Techisnandan and more towardes the East to the kingdome of Candahar there making an end of that compasse all the South parte of this present Empire is figured The East whereof is included betweene the borders of Corassan and of the Tartarian Iesselbas euen from the Citty of Samarcante on the east parte of the Casptan Sea otherwise called the sea of Baccu The compasse appeareth to bee very great and of importance comprehending in it many prouinces not onely famous in our tymes but also much more glorious in the daies of those Auncients for that in the West is included with the countrey of Georgia parte of Turcomania and of Cussestan in the North Seruania the countrey of Gheilan and Massandran in the East Candahar Corassan and Heri and in the South all the kingdome of Fars the cheefe Citty whereof is Siras with Caramania the Desert In the very middle and Centre of this Circle are the Territories of Casbin Cassan and Hispahan So that in the beginning of this warre the King of Persia ruled ouer all these prouinces Georgia sometyme called Iberia Seruania otherwise called Atropatia Tauris with the territories belonging vnto it called in times past Media the Great Gheilan or Gely Masandran or Hircania more inward Parthia Aria Candahar or Peripaniso Farsi or Persia and parte of Cussestan in old tyme called Assyria All these prouinces in times past subdued by the Macedonians the Graecians and Barbarians wasted by so many mutations and States and outrages of Armyes haue also lost their auncient names and according to the seuerall languages therein vsed haue had dyuers and sondry appellations which as a man may probably coniecture are in truth those that are last named Of all which prouinces Anania Pius the second of happy memory Negro the Venetian some other late Geographers haue beene so bould as to wryte many thinges rather fabulous then true after the example and imitation of those that are so greatly reprehended by Strabo and Thucydides therefore avoyding the danger of lying and laying also a side for this time the History of thinges Naturall Miraculous and Poeticall for of Poeticall matters especially the particular Geography of Danaeus reporteth we will onely speake of such thinges as will serue our turne for the better knowledge of the State and condition of this kingdome Tamas had vnder him and so he left the kingdome to Ismahel in whose time and by whose meanes these warres were raised threescore and tenne Gouernementes all bearing the Titles of Sultans Chan so that in his whole Empire he had seauentie Citties of such state and condition as they deserued to haue a Gouernour of the same dignitie that the Bassa is with the Turkes as shall be declared in the exposition of Names Now what they were it would be a very hard matter precisely to know yet some of them we haue learned and the principall thereof peraduenture were Sumachi Sechi Eres Seruan Derbent Caracach Ardouil Tauris Reiuan Genge Hispahan Masandran Gheilan Heri Cassam Siras Starabat Chilmisnar Candahar Iesed Sapanec Sultania Bargo Cum Coran Seua Casbin and others all which haue Iurisdiction ouer many Villages and Townes from whence there are leauied many men of warre Hispahan onely hath in her gouernement twelue Sultanes Casbin three Sultanes the king Heri three also and Abas Mirize Candahar three and Rustan Mirize Of all these places to make an exquisite description Geographicall to tell the Mountaines the Riuers the Champaines the Distances the Situations the Altitudes of the Pole and such other particularities it would not be an enterprise fit for our handling except we would insert many lies therein as a nomber of writers haue heeretofore done therefore seeing neither the battels of the Turke haue entred into those partes nor any thing happened in them that requireth any great diligēce of discourse Let that little bee sufficient which wee haue already touched in this History by occasion of Abas Mirize and of the Turcomanni and returning to Georgia to Seruan and to Media the Great with a peece of Armenia we will vse our best diligence euen as neede shall require and our informations will serue vs. Georgia then is that prouince which in auncient tyme was called Iberia which on the West is bounded vpon Colchis at this day called Mengrellia on the East vpon Media Atropatia at this day called as we said afore Seruan on the North vpon Albania now called Zuiria and on the South vpon Armenia the Greater now called Turcomania whereof it doth also possesse a parte so that Iberia and part of Armenia is comprehended vnder this name of Georgia It is for the most part full of hills woods rockes and ruynes and hath abundance of silkes fruites wilde beastes and Faulcons It is watred with many famous riuers and so was euen in the tyme of Strabo but principally with the riuer Cirus whose gulfe openeth in that country and is ioyned with Araxis The riuer Araxis springeth out of the hill Taurus in that parte where Periardo is situate on the syde of the hill Abo and so running by East euen to the confynes of Seruan windeth it selfe towardes the west by the North where it is ioined with Cirus and then passeth to Artaxata a cittie of the Armenians right against a place which is very famous in this warre called Reiuan and so watring Armenia and coursing all along the playne of Araxis which peraduenture is the champaine called Caldarana dischargeth it selfe into the Caspian Sea at this day called the sea of Corazun and of Baccu on the one syde by south leauing Armenia and on the other syde by North leauing Seruania whose cheefe Citty is Eres which is so famous in this booke as in fit place it shalbe shewed It is a riuer very deepe and large but yet at this present it contayneth not those meruails that Herodotus reporteth of it as also it is very hard to

Some think that his brother Abas Mirize of Heri who had before conspired to cause him to bee betrayed into the handes of the Turkish Generall had now by force of money and giftes perswaded the wicked Eunuch thereunto Others deeme that his owne Father being become verie desirous to see Abas setled in the kingdome did procure his death which notwithstanding in mine opinion hath no poynt of probability Diuers others do reason the matter diuerslie But wee not onelie are not able to affirme the certen trueth of this accident but also haue scarse any heart to testifie to the world that thus or thus in trueth his death was procured For we are not minded to set downe any discourse for a trueth in such matters as haue happened in these warres since wee returned and haue remayned in Italy to the ende that wee woulde not diminish that credite and good opinion which we know our Readers haue iustly giuen to all thinges hetherto written by vs as vnto things that wee were most desirous to vnderstand for certenties by such good meanes as we haue already named in our Epistle to the Readers And we in the meane time wil expect that some other Writer will pursue these aduentures in such sort as shall seeme best vnto him For touching our selues being wearie of the many diuersities which wee daylie heare by aduertisementes out of the East countrey we haue had no hart at all to describe what hath happened therein in the yeare fourscore and seuenth But by the fauour of the Readers here we haue thought good to make a full point A Letter to the VVorshipful SIGNOR MARIO CORRADO Wherein is prooued that Tauris is not Terua as Iouius writeth nor Tigranoama as Negro taketh it nor Tigran●certa as others doe thinke but Ecbathana as Ortelius and Anania doe iudge WOrshipfull Sir I haue alwayes made that reckoning of your Worships counsels and aduises which your vertue deserueth and especially touching those matters whereof it pleased you to aduertise mee at such time as I was resident in this Citie and so kindlie entertained therein with all curteous and bountifull entertainment For whatsoeuer I could possiblie obserue in the Historie of the Warres betweene the Turkes and Persians both concerning words and also concerning matters I haue endeuoured by all meanes to reduce vnto that note which you deliuered vnto mee and haue not fayled asmuch as my skill could reach to put in execution all your good preceptes and aduertisementes Only there remayneth in this historie one thing which as yet is not throughlie iustified and that is mine opinion touching the Citie of Tauris which your Worship by reason of your douhting thereof made mee suspect at the first but afterwards it pleased you to allow and confirme to be the best and soundest And although I haue freely and boldly set downe that Tauris is not Terua as Iouius writeth but Ecbathana as manie others both before and after Iouius do take it and although I find manie reasons wherby I haue bene perswaded so freely to auow it Notwithstanding when I considered that this was a matter of great importance in this Historie to entrreat of the true finding out and acknowledgment of a Cittie for the conquest whereof almost all these troubles of warres were principally raised to the end that all things might the more plainlie appeare I resolued to publish these my reasons and particularly to send thē to your W. not only because you first encouraged me with liuely arguments to approue this particularity being of it self a very important matter yea the more importāt in regard of the authority of such men as are of the contrarie opinion but also because you were a great helper vnto me with your owne priuate study to furnish mee with so goodly a number of reasons for the same By twelue arguments therfore me thinks I may certainely and demonstratiuely reason that Tauris cannot be the Terua of Ptolomey but ought indeed to be called the ancient Ecbathana My first reason is because Strabo teacheth vs that the Poole Mantian or Martian or Margian call it as yee will that which is now tearmed the Poole Actamar is situate in the confines of great Armenia and stretcheth euen as far as the cōfines of Media Atropatia And in the twelfth book of his Geographie it is manifestlie seene that there is either verie little or no quantitie of countrie or people at all betweene the Mantian Poole and Media the greater The same may be collected out of Ptolomie who as it seemeth doth place the forenamed Poole rather in the entrance of Media the greater than in the latter end of great Armenia Out of this certaine trueth I gather this foundation The Martian Poole is in the confines of the Medes and of the Armenians and therefore it must needes followe that if Tauris should be Terua it must either be in the West or in the. West Southwest or in the West Northwest or els in the verie Northwest of the saide Poole for in the South or in the North I doo not beleeue that any man doth place it and if hee should so doe hee should commit an errour not onely worthy of correction but also of chastisement But if Tauris bee Ecbathana it must either bee in the East or in the East Southeast or in the Southeast or in the East Northeast or els in the very Northeast For much lesse will any man be so bolde as to place it in the South or in the North of the saide Poole and whosoeuer shoulde so place it hee shoulde commit a double errour Terua indeede according to Iouius and according to that which the discription of Ptolomey doeth inferre is as a man may say in the verie center and middest of great Armenia and consequentlie it muste bee in the West or West Southwest or West Northwest of the said pool Wherevpon if Tauris should be Terua then should Tauris haue the very selfe same situation But both sence and reason yea Iouius himselfe all other doo with one accorde confesse that Tauris is in the East of the forenamed Poole and by a good quantitie of grounde distant from it And therefore it remaineth that Tauris is not Terua but Ecbathana being a good way distant in the East of the saide poole a man may conclude that the verie situation and auncient ruines of Ecbathana haue yeelded matter and stuffe to this new Tauris And somuch the more likely because all the Marchantes and souldiers that vse the viage from Van to Tauris and from Tauris to Van being a place situate as it were on the easterne banks of the Martian poole doo vniformly testifie that in their trauelling from Van to Tauris they haue their faces looking towards the East and in their returne from Tauris to Van they haue their faces turned towardes the West and that they passe through certaine vallies between certain mountaines which peraduenture may be the toppes of the Caspian mountaine The