1 APPENDIX.
2 AFP£NDIX A.
3 JUSTOAY OF THE XIMOSOM or caubt t , tuom THfi FODVIIlATIOII Ol THB
4 OOOaAUNKfi MONARCHY.
5 T ITlliE tt kam €f fhe <iay Ustovy of tlie IXn)^^ ]B|^11wb8it
6 ^■-^ ■oooonts* I can cbtaiii, ihef tffen to iMve been cntiiaty indmifmlBiit
7 till the beginning of tlie sevantMttth century, when, being hard {OeiMil bjr
8 the Uzbeks, they agreed to pay tribute to Persia, as the price of protection.
9 They perhaps remained on this footing till 1708, when the Ghiljieswho had
10 been subject to Persia, rose against the Georgian Prince Bagrathion, who
11 was guveniur of Cantlaliar, 011 tiie port uf the last of the Sophies. At that
12 time the DooiauneeB asem mostl j to have been aettled in the momttsiitt near
13 Heraott under the name of Abdaulees, and to have been already I<Hig engaged
14 in hostilitiea with the Ghfljies.
15 In the year 17 16, the Abdaullees, under AbdooUah Khaun Suddozye,
16 invaded the Persian territor}', defeated the governor of Heraut in the field,
17 and took that city and many places in its neighbourhoo'd. Tliry were after-
18 wards defeated in a battle with Mahniood Gluljie, but us tiiat Prince soon
19 after conqfunA Penria, andr m liii dynasty tm occupied, during liia ahoit
20 period of its doaunion, in aettKng hs cqB^ncats, and in wan with the Gnnd
21 Signior, the Abdaidleee remained for a long time unmoleited. Not kog
22 after their defeat, AbdooUah was depo6<»i, and perhaps poisoned, by 2ieniaun
23 Khnun (the son of ITfowlut Khaun and father of Ahmed Shauh), who took
24 ttif If^ad amontf tin Abdaullees, defeated a Persian army of double his num-
25 ber, and successfully resisted all attempts of thi^ nation on Heraut. So
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27 * Tfaoie of Hanway, who, from the exceOence of hit hwtory of the Afghaun conquetUt V *^
28 litkd to UttCDtioa when tm^iog of tbemoce otwcure period which, preceded tbote tteaU.
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