_ 200 _ shall leave for Ormuz in the company of his ambassador. The state of affairs in the war waged by the King against the Turk in this year of 1608 was that the Shah made preparations and went with his army to encamp between Tabriz and Babylon, to see on which side the Turkish army would descend. While he was there is happened that there was a great disagreement between the Pasha of Babylon and the inhabitants of that city, because the inhabitants chose ambassadors and sent them to the Persian King with the keys of the city, asking him to come and take possession of it. The Shah did not go at once because the fortress there was on the Pasha’s side and there were four thousand Turks in it. While he delayed, the son of Sinan Pasha arrived in Babylon with a large army, and Murad Pasha was approaching with another army by way of [Arzezu ?=Azerbaijan] or Assyria. But they came late, because winter was beginning and so this year nothing happened.
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