ving a son called Ni-ni-cha by the
Chinese, probably Narses. Yezdegerd had two sons, Firouz and Bahram St.
Martin, vol. xi. p. 318.--M.]

[Footnote 39: The two daughters of Yezdegerd married Hassan, the son of
Ali, and Mohammed, the son of Abubeker; and the first of these was the
father of a numerous progeny. The daughter of Phirouz became the wife
of the caliph Walid, and their son Yezid derived his genuine or fabulous
descent from the Chosroes of Persia, the Caesars of Rome, and the
Chagans of the Turks or Avars, (D'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orientale, p. 96,
487.)]

After the fall of the Persian kingdom, the River Oxus divided the
territories of the Saracens and of the Turks. This narrow boundary was
soon overleaped by the spirit of the Arabs; the governors of Chorasan
extended their successive inroads; and one of their triumphs was adorned
with the buskin of a Turkish queen, which she dropped in her precipitate
flight beyond the hills of Bochara. [40] But the final conquest of
Transoxiana, [41] as well as of Spain, was reserved for the glorious
reign of the inactive Walid; and the name of Catibah, the camel driver,
declares the origin and merit of his successful lieutenant. While one of
his colleagues displayed the first Mahometan banner on the banks of
the Indus, the spacious regions between the Oxus, the Jaxartes, and the
Caspian Sea, were reduced by the arms of Catibah to the obedience of the
prophet and of the caliph. [42] A tribute of two millions of pieces of
gold was imposed on the infidels; their idols were burnt or broken; the
Mussulman chief pronounced a sermon in the new mosch of Carizme; after
several battles, the Turkish hordes were driven back to the desert; and
the emperors of China solicited the friendship of the victorious Arabs.
To their industry, the prosperity of the province, the Sogdiana of the
ancients, may in a great measure be ascribed; but the advantages of the
soil and climate had been understood and cultivated since the reign
of the Macedonian kings. Before the invasion of the Saracens, Carizme,
Bochara, and Samarcand were rich and populous under the yoke of the
shepherds of the north. [4211] These cities were surrounded with a
double wall; and the exterior fortification, of a larger circumference,
enclosed the fields and gardens of the adjacent district. The mutual
wants of India and Europe were supplied by the diligence of the Sogdian
merchants; and the inestimable art of transforming linen i