[Footnote 30: This city is mentioned by Constantine
Porphyrogenitus, (de Administrat. Imperii, l. ii. c. 44, p.
119,) and the Byzantines of the xith century, under the name
of Mantzikierte, and by some is confounded with
Theodosiopolis; but Delisle, in his notes and maps, has very
properly fixed the situation. Abulfeda (Geograph. tab.
xviii. p. 310) describes Malasgerd as a small town, built
with black stone, supplied with water, without trees, &c.]