Merv, the Queen of the
World;
and the Scourge of the Man-stealing Turcomans. With an
Exposition of the Khorassan Question:
By Charles Thomas Marvin, Published by W.H. Allen, 1881
CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF THE Turkmen.
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MINOR TRIBES.
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of the more southerly part of the
ridge bears the designation of the Kopet* Dagh, or Daman-i-Kuh. In
this manner the chain of mountains stretching to the
south-east from Krasnovodsk and Balkan Bay has, as far as
the natural boundary of Kizil Arvat, two breaks and three
designations; while the second part beyond Kizil Arvat
consists entirely of an unbroken wall, with one title
only. From the northern side of this mountain system
stretches as far as the Ust Urt an immense desert,
bounded on the north by the old branch of the Amu-Darya
(Uzboi), on the east by the Oxus, and on the south, on
one hand, by the final spurs of the Hindu Kush and Paropamisus ranges,
and on the other,
from the southern region of the Caspian Sea, by the
Elburz range. One ramification of this range at
Astrabad (present day Gorgon) takes a north-easterly
direction, and converges with the final part of the Kopet Dagh at the extreme northern
border of Persia, near the province of Deregez."
Between the Kopet
Dagh and northern
branch of the Elburz range and the Caspian Sea, is a
rocky triangle, of which the apex is the connecting joint
of the Kopet and Elburz ridges, the
sides the two ridges referred to, and the base the
eastern coast of the Caspian from Balkan Bay to the
mouths of the Gorgon and Atrek. Of this triangle, the
southern side (the
Elburz ramification) is considerably higher than the
northern (Kopet Dagh), and
in general the whole of the country inside the triangle
slopes from the apex and the sides towards the base
— the Caspian Sea. From the southern side of the
* Petroosevitch spells the word
throughout “Koppet Dagh."
— C. M.
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