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| | Traveling to Jerusalem, Naser-e Khusraw's Safarnama) |
 | | Tughrul Beg had already defeated the Sultan of Ghuzni, and was now turning his arms against the Bani Marwan, and other princes who held semi-independent state in the north-western provinces of Persia, and in Upper Mesopotamia. |
 | | From Marv, going by the highroad through Sarakhs, he reached Nishapur, at that time the seat of Tughrul Beg's government, and after a short stay set forth again, this time in company with the Sultan's secretary, who had business in the western provinces of the Saljuk Empire. |
 | | They passed through Kumis to Damghan, and thence skirting the southern spurs of the great mountain-chain of the Elburz, and with the desert lying on the left hand, came to Ray (Rhages), the ruins of which may yet be seen a few miles south of the modern Tehran. |
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