A part of Abulfeda's geography is translated
by Greaves, inserted in Hudson's collection of the minor
geographers, (tom. iii.,) and entitled Descriptio Chorasmiae
et Mawaralnahrae, id est, regionum extra fluvium, Oxum, p.
80. The name of Transoxiana, softer in sound, equivalent in
sense, is aptly used by Petit de la Croix, (Hist. de
Gengiscan, etc.,) and some modern Orientalists, but they are
mistaken in ascribing it to the writers of antiquity.