Ibn Khordadbeh

Ibn Khordadbeh, Abu'l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (c. 820–912), an Arab geographer of Persian origin.

He is the author of the earliest surviving geographical book Kitāb al-Masālik wa-l-Mamālik (The Book of Roads and Kingdoms). The work contains interesting information about the South Caucasus and, in particular, Georgia. It describes the route roads and the cities located along these roads, the fortress, which, according to Arab and Georgian sources, was located on the left bank of the Mtkvari River in Tbilisi in the 9^th century and was a functioning fortress.

 

Literature: საქართველოს ისტორიის ნარკვევები, ტ. 2, თბ., 1973; Крачковский И. Ю., Избр. соч., т. 4, М.–Л., 1957; Сведения арабских писателей о Кавказе, Армении и Азербайджане, пер. и прим. Караулова Н. А., "Сборник материалов для описания местностей и племен Кавказа", СМОМПК, 1903, в. 32.

 

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