_ 104 _ and were favored by fortune, who helps, the brave, he soon became Lord of that monarchy. His great-grandson, the father of the present ruler, yes, also fortunate and removed from the kingdom those who sought to usurp his position, and he won great victories against the Turks. One such was that of 1577, when the Turk sent Mustafa Pasha with forty thousand men to build a fortress at Kharg, when is at the edge of both domains, and they were defeated there by the Persians, who killed seven pashas and thirty and more [sonis] and Usbeks and most of the soldiery, and took all the spoils and 400 bronze cannon they left behind, Mustafa, who was wounded, took refuge in the city of [Hoão], and then sent [Piala] with another army to enter Persia through Georgia, and if he encountered resistance, as far as the city of Tabriz, subject and close to the domain of [Rezuão], a subject State of Persia which is bounded on one side by Georgia and on the other by the Caspian Sea, which the ancients called the Lagoa Meotis. There he began to fortify his camp and to build a new fortress because the Lord of the territory, who was Muhammadan sec obeyed him. The Persian sent thirty thousand cavalries against him in confederation with the Reds, and in all directions, they prevented supplies from reaching him. They captured five thousand camels loaded
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