chapter 6, note H.

"The first of this [the Tartar] race known to the Romans were the Alani. In the fourth century they pitched their tents in the country between the Volga and the Tanais, at an equal distance from the Black Sea and the Caspian."

_J. C. L. Sismondi, Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter 3._

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ALANS: A. D. 376. Conquest by the Huns.

See GOTHS (VISIGOTHS): A. D. 376.

ALANS: A. D. 406-409. Final Invasion of Gaul.

See GAUL: A. D. 406-409.

ALANS: A. D. 409-414. Settlement in Spain.

See SPAIN: A. D. 409-414.

ALANS: A. D. 429. With the Vandals in Africa.

See VANDALS: A. D. 429-439.

ALANS: A. D. 451. At the Battle of Chalons.

See HUNS: A. D. 451.

ALANS: End----------

ALARCOS, Battle of (A. D. 1195).

See ALMOHADES.

ALARIC'S RAVAGES IN GREECE AND CONQUEST OF ROME.

See GOTHS: A. D. 395; 400-403, and ROME: A. D. 408-410.

ALARODIANS.--IBERIANS.--COLCHIANS.

"The Alarodians of Herodotus, joined with the Sapeires ... are almost certainly the inhabitants of Armenia, whose Semitic name was Urarda, or Ararat. 'Alarud,' indeed, is a mere variant form of 'Ararud,' the l and r being undistinguishable in the old Persian, and 'Ararud' serves determinately to connect the Ararat of Scripture with the Urarda, or Urartha of the Inscriptions. ... The name of Ararat is constantly used in Scripture, but always to denote a country rather than a particular mountain. ... The connexion ... of Urarda with the Babylonian tribe of Akkad is proved by the application in the inscriptions of the ethnic title of Burbur (?) to the Armenian king ... ; but there is nothing to prove whether the Burbur or Akkad of Babylonia descended in a very remote age from the mountains to colonize the plains, or whether the Urardians were refugees of a later period driven northward by the growing power of the Semites. The former supposition, however, is most in conformity with Scripture, and incidentally with the tenor of the inscriptions."

_H. C. Rawlinson, History of Herodotus,