Long. Lat. Names. MOKнÁ, a sea-port in Yemen (or Arabia Felix), in the territory of Zabíd MADÁÍN, in the province of Irák Arab MARÁKESH, in Africa MIRBÁT, in the province of Hadrmút, in Yemen, on the sea-shore MARAND, (equivalent in metre to the word Parand,) a place in Ázerbájján MARV SHÁHJÁN, a city of Khurasán, which in the time of the Seljúkian dynasty was the capital of that province MARV RÚD, a city of Khurasan, 82 0 36 30 of Gílán, distant from the city of Ámol eight farsangs* MASÍSAH, a place in Syria MAARET AL NAAMÁN, in Syria, belonging to the territory of Avásim. MAKRÁN, a province adjoining Kirmán MEKKAH MAAZMEH (the great * This statement sufficiently agrees with the distances mentioned by Sir W. Ouseley, who informs us that his Persian companions assigned “seh farsang-i-sabk” (El Eliw, dw), "three light farsangs," (or not quite three,) to the space between Mashhed-i-Sar and Bárfurúsh; and from Bárfurúsh to Ámul he found to be a journey of five farsangs, or about eighteen miles. Respecting the name "Mashhed-i-Sar," he learned that it was derived from the tomb of a certain saint or مشهد سر از طبرستانست بر ساحل سر درياي كيلان از امل هشت فرسخ مصيصه از شام است معرة النعمان از شام است از اعمال Ε لو بع . فز م از ع . سط لومة امام زاده) Imam Zadeh as mashhed or meshhed is used to express a spot rendered sacred by the martyrdom or the interment of personages held in religious veneration by the Muhammedans."-Travels, vol. iii. pp. 290, 293, 295. Thus the city of Tús, noticed in the article immediately preceding, has been entitled "the holy tomb," Mash-hed Mukuddes, from the adjoining burial-place of Imám Rizá. |