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tan, where he was joined by Inanj Khân. The two allies were again attacked by the Mongols between Jorjian and Asterabad. Tekin was killed and Inanj Khân fled to Ghias-u'd-din, brother of Jalâlu'd-dîn, the Khuậrizm Shah, where he died. These events are otherwise reported by other authorities, where we read that while Chepe and Subutai were in winter quarters in the district of Rai, Begtikin, leader of the Khuárizm Shah's troops in Irak, set out from Mughan, where he had his winter quarters, to attack the Mongols in Irak. Ajam, in company with Jamalu'd-din Ineh (i.e. Inanj), called Jamalu'd-din Abiah by Raverty, raised a revolt against the Mongols, killed the Mongol Commissary whom Chepe had placed in charge of Hamadan, carried off Maju'ddin Alau'd-daulat its governor, and imprisoned him in the fortress of Krit, called Kurbat or Gurbat by Raverty. Chepe speedily marched to the rescue, drove away Jamal-n'd-din Ineh and reconquered the district. Zanjan, north-west of Kazvin, was also attacked and all the Jews there killed.
The Mongols now proceeded to invade Azerbaijan, whence the recent attack had come. Azerbaijan and Arran, from which it was separated by the river Kur, were subject to a Turkish chief named Uzbog, son of Jihan Pahlwan, whose grandfather Ildegis had been brought from Kipchak as a slave and sold to the Seljuk Sultan of Irak. Eventually emancipated and raised to various dignities Ildegis was in 1146 giren the appanage of Azerbaijan and Arran and the style of the Atabeg, which was retained by his family after the destruction of the Seljuk dominion in Irak. Uzbeg had been Atabeg of the two provinces since 1197."
The Mongols first attacked Azerbaijan. Uzbeg bought the goodwill of the invaders by paying them a large sum of money, and sacrificing a quantity of cattle and goods. They thereupon withdrew from the neighbonrhood of Tebriz on account of the cold, the winter having been very nevere, and went to spend the winter in the rich pastures of Mughan, bounded by the Caspian, the Kar, and the Aras.
" Rashidu'd-dia, quoted by De In Croix, 323-324. " Erdmann, Temucchin, p. 485: l'ab-i-Nis. Raverty's notes, p. 907.
D'Ohason, Vol. I. p. 325-6. . Iba-al-Athir, Jour Aviat 4th Sories, Vol. XIV. p. 414.
Thence they made an attack upon Georgia. Vartan, the Armenian historian, tells us how their arrival was portended by the fall of the splendid church of Meshgavank in the province of Udi, which was shattered by an earthquake : three priests who were celebrating the sacrament being killed, while a comet shaped like a lance appeared in the heavens. They penetrated the country, he says, by the valleys of the land to Kukark from the side of the Aghuans" to the number of 20,000 men. They massacred everything living they met with, and then rapidly retired. Lasha followed them with his troops, overtook them near the river Guesdman, but was defeated and had to flee with Ivaneh. The latter's horse had been hamstrung, so that he was dismounted. Meanwhile a grandee of the country, called Vahram, who was a prince of Khachen, unaware of this defert attacked another body of Mongols, and pursued them to the fortress of Kartman." Guiragos says the invaders advanced rapidly upon Tiflis and then withdrew towards the town of Shamkor, and adds it was falsely reported that they professed Magism, and were also Christians, and that they were sent to revenge the wrongs which the Christians had suffered at the hands of the nomads; that they had church in the form of a tent and miraculous cross; that they were accustomed to take a measure of onts and scatter it in front of the cross, after which the whole army brought their horses to feed upon it, but it did not diminish in quantity, and that it was the same as human food. The people were put off their guard by these reports, and onr annalist reports how a priest who went with his flock cross in hand to meet them was killed with the rest. In regard to the fight above described Guiragos says: “They devastated > wide district and deposited their spoils in the strong Fortress of Baghamej, situated in the marsby country between Barda and Bailekan." He adds they killed all living things they met. men and even dogs, nor did they attach any value to rich garments. &c., but only to horses.
The Gorgians now sent to propose an alliance "Di... Arti fie. David Laahs, the Georgian king. ** Journ. Asiat., 5th Serior, Vol. XVI. pp. 377-879.
* Gairuon, ed. BroBiot. pp. 100-101, Jour. Ariat., 5th Series, Vol. XI. pp. 198-190.
