And in the year five hundred and thirty-three of the Arabs (A.D. 1138),
in the second month, there was a severe earthquake in ganzah, a city in
Persian territory. And there perished therein two hundred and thirty
thousand souls, and the whole city was completely engulfed, and black
waters burst up from the ground; and those who escaped [303] went out
and took up their abode in the cemeteries and bewailed their [dead]
relations.
And in the year fourteen hundred and fifty of the Greeks (A.D. 1139),
malik mahammad, the lord of melitene, went to the country of cilicia, and
captured the two fortresses bahgai and gabnupirath. And he invaded also
the country of kasinos, which is on the coast of the sea of pontus, and he
plundered and made captives of all the people and sold them into slavery.
And in the year fourteen hundred and fifty-one of the Greeks (A.D. 1140)
the earth was rent in the country of calonicus, and it swallowed up forty
horsemen with their horses, and only one who had turned aside to make
water was saved. And the sound of the groans of men and their horses
came up for a long time.
