The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
Translated by Annette Susannah Beveridge
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AH.—Oct. 12th 1493 to Oct. 2nd 1494 AD.
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
In the month of Ramẓān of the year 899 (June 1494) and in the twelfth year of my age, I became ruler in the country of Farghāna.
Farghāna is situated in the fifth climate and at the limit of settled habitation. On the east it has Kāshghar; on the west, Samarkand; on the south, the mountains of the Badakhshān border; on the north, though in former times there must have been towns such as Ālmālīgh, Ālmātū and Yāngī which in books they write Tarāz, at the present time all is desolate, no settled population whatever remaining, because of the Mughūls and the Aūzbegs.
Farghāna is a small country, abounding in grain and fruits. It is girt round by mountains except on the west, i.e. towards Khujand and Samarkand, and in winter an enemy can enter only on that side.
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