irgonekan

Updated: May 5, 2025

The Kisik-tag, which he had before passed in descending into Western Turkestan. This absurd derivation of the name of the country and people, is unworthy of credit. Organum was probably the country called Irgonekan or Irganakon by Abulgari; and the word signifies a valley surrounded by steep mountains, exactly correspondent with the description in the text. Forst.

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