There Can Be No Doubt That Mo-Sze Here Denotes 'muslin,' And The
Chinese Author Seems To Understand By This Term The Same Material Which We
Are Now Used To Call Muslin." - H. C.] I Have Found No Elucidation Of
Polo's Application Of Mosolini To A Class Of Merchants.
But, in a letter
of Pope Innocent IV.
(1244) to the Dominicans in Palestine, we find
classed as different bodies of Oriental Christians, "Jacobitae,
Nestoritae, Georgiani, Graeci, Armeni, Maronitae, et Mosolini." (Le
Quien, III. 1342.)
NOTE 4. - "The Curds," says Ricold, "exceed in malignant ferocity all the
barbarous nations that I have seen.... They are called Curti, not
because they are curt in stature, but from the Persian word for
Wolves.... They have three principal vices, viz., Murder, Robbery, and
Treachery." Some say they have not mended since, but his etymology is
doubtful. Kurt is Turkish for a wolf, not Persian, which is Gurg; but
the name (Karduchi, Kordiaei, etc.) is older, I imagine, than the
Turkish language in that part of Asia. Quatremere refers it to the Persian
gurd, "strong, valiant, hero." As regards the statement that some of the
Kurds were Christians, Mas'udi states that the Jacobites and certain other
Christians in the territory of Mosul and Mount Judi were reckoned among
the Kurds. (Not. et Ext. XIII. i. 304.) [The Kurds of Mosul are in part
nomadic and are called Kotcheres, but the greater number are sedentary
and cultivate cereals, cotton, tobacco, and fruits. (Cuinet.) Old
Kurdistan had Shehrizor (Kerkuk, in the sanjak of that name) as its
capital.
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