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632 GAZETTEER I 
Balarm: city, port — see Palermo. 
al-Balã~ (Arabic: the level ground): village — L2e4, 5. 
Baleares (Spanish): island group — Ee, i. 
Balikh; Balikh (Arabic), Belikh or Belih (-Nehri) (Turkish): river —
L5e4, 3. 
Bãlis (Arabic), Barbalissus (classical): town — L4e5, 5, 9.
Balkans: mountain range and peninsula — Id, 2, 3. 
Balkh (Persian, Arabic), Bactra (classical): city, now unimportant —
R2e4, 4. 
Balona or BãlU: fortress — see Palu. 
Baltic Sea — I, 2. 
Baluchistan: region north of the Indian Ocean — Qg, 4. 
Banbalunah: town — see Pamplona. 
Baniyas: port — see Valania. 
Banyas; Paneas or Caesarea-Philippi (classical), Belinas (medieval), Baniyas
(Arabic): town—Lifz, 6, 9, 10, II, 12, 13, 14. 
Bar (French): district between Champagne and Lorraine east of Châlons.
Barada; Abana (classical), Baradâ (Arabic): L2f2, 6. 
al-Barah: town — see Albara. 
Barbalissus: town — see Bãlis. 
Barbastro (Spanish), Barbashtru (Arabic): town — Eid3, i. 
Barcelona (Spanish), Barshilunah (Arabic): city, port — E3d4, i. 
Ban (Italian): port — Hzd4, 2. 
Ba~rin or Bãrin (Arabic), Montferrand (medieval): fortress —
Lzfi, 5. 
Barres or Barr (French): village 19 miles sw of Strassburg. 
Barzenona (medieval): unidentified Italian bishopric, not Barcelona in Spain.
Bas-Poitou (French): district of western Poitou. 
Basarfut (Arabic): fortress — Lze~, 5. 
Basra; al-Ba~rah (Arabic): city, port — N3f5, ~, 4, 7, 8, ii. 
Ba~a1yaus: town — see Badajoz. 
Bathnae: town —see Saruj. 
Bathys (classical), Sari (-Su) (Turkish): river — Kiei, 3. 
al-Batihah or al-Butail.iah (Arabic: the stream-bed): plain north of Lake
Tiberias 
— Lif3, 6. 
al-Batrün (Arabic), Botrys (classical), Botron (medieval): town —
Lifi, 6, 9, ' 4. 
Bavaria; Bayern (German): region of southern Germany — Gc, i. 
Bayeux (French): town z~ miles east of Carentan. 
Beam (French): district of s~ France — Dd, i. 
Beaufort: crusader castle — see Belfort. 
Beauvoir: crusader castle — see Belvoir. 
Bebou: fortress — see Bibol. 
Bec (French): abbey 23 miles SW of Rouen. 
Behesni; Behesnou (West Armenian), Bahasni or Bahasnã (Arabic), Besni
(modern Turkish): fortress, now town — L3e3, 5, 9. 
Beirut; Berytus (classical), Bairüt (Arabic): port — Lifz, 3,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, II, 12, 13, 14. 
Belen Boghazi: pass — see Syrian Gates. 
Belfort or Beaufort (medieval), Shaqif ArnUn or QaPat ash-Shaqif (Arabic:
fort of the rock): crusader castle — L1f2, 6, 10, 13, 14. 
Belgrade; Beograd (Serbian): town — lidi, 2. 
Belikh or Belih (_Nehri): river — see Balikh. 
Belinas: town — see Banyas. 
Belvoir or Beauvoir (medieval), Kaukab al-Hawã' (Arabic: star of the
sky): 
crusader castle — Lif3, 6, 10, 14. 
Benevento (Italian): city — G5d4, 2. 
Beograd: town — see Belgrade.