ABSTRACT

In 183 A. H. the wild hordes of the Khazars, instigated by the Greeks with whom they were on terms of amity,2 again burst into Armenia from the north. Their atrocities and the devastations they caused are described as unheard-of and unparalleled. Rashid despatched two of his best generals for the punishment of the barbarians;

terrible and severe. A. H.