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MASSAGETES (Ancient country) IRAN
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 1.200 - 1.216 (end of book 1)
EKVATANA (Ancient city) MIDIA
In Media.
Persian capital in Media, plan of.
SELEFKIA EPI TOU EVLEOU (Ancient city) IRAN
In Persia, residence of Persian king, the capital of the Persian kings, on the Choaspes, Memnonian walls at, march of Memnon from Ethiopia to, march of Memnon from Susa to Ilium, image of Artemis carried from Brauron to, Pulydamas visits Darius at, Smerdis murdered there, revolt against the Magi there, Histiaeus at Susa, end of the Royal road, called the Memnonian, Milesian captives brought thither, Demaratus and the Pisistratidae at Susa, Spartans there, reception there of Xerxes' despatches from Greece, Xerxes' amours at Susa (other unimportant reff. to Susa as the royal residence).
PARTHIA (Ancient country) IRAN
The kingdoms of Parthia are eighteen in all: such being the divisions of its provinces,
which lie, as we have already stated, along the Red Sea to the south, and the
Hyrcanian to the north. Of this number the eleven, called the Higher provinces,
begin at the frontiers of Armenia and the shores of the Caspian, and extend to
the Scythians, whose mode of life is similar in every respect. The other seven
kingdoms of Parthia bear the name of the Lower provinces. As to the Parthi themselves,
Parthia always lay at the foot of the mountains so often mentioned, which overhang
all these nations. On the east it is bounded by the Arii, on the south by Carmania
and the Ariani, on the west by the Pratitae, a people of the Medi, and on the
north by the Hyrcani: it is surrounded by deserts on every side. The more distant
of the Parthi are called Nomades; on this side of them there are deserts. On the
west are the cities of Issatis and Calliope, already mentioned, on the north-east
Europus, on the south-east Maria; in the middle there are Hecatompylos, Arsace,
and Nisiaea, a fine district of Parthiene, in which is Alexandropolis, so called
from its founder. It is requisite in this place to trace the localities of the
Medi also, and to describe in succession the features of the country as far as
the Persian Sea, in order that the account which follows may be the better understood.
Media lies crosswise to the west, and so presenting itself obliquely to Parthia,
closes the entrance of both kingdoms into which it is divided. It has, then, on
the east, the Caspii and the Parthi; on the south, Sittacene, Susiane, and Persis;
on the west, Adsiabene; and on the north, Armenia. The Persae have always inhabited
the shores of the Red Sea, for which reason it has received the name of the Persian
Gulf. This maritime region of Persis has the name of Ciribo; on the side on which
it runs up to that of the Medi, there is a place known by the name of Climax Megale,
where the mountains are ascended by a steep flight of stairs, and so afford a
narrow passage which leads to Persepolis, the former capital of the kingdom, destroyed
by Alexander. It has also, at its extreme frontier, Laodicea, founded by Antiochus.
To the east of this place is the fortress of Passagarda, held by the Magi, at
which spot is the tomb of Cyrus; also Ecbatana, a city of theirs, the inhabitants
of which were removed by Darius to the mountains. Between the Parthi and the Ariani
projects the territory of the Paraetaceni. By these nations and the river Euphrates
are the Lower kingdoms of Parthia bounded; of the others we shall speak after
Mesopotamia, which we shall now describe, with the exception of that angle of
it and the peoples of Arabia, which have been already mentioned in a former book.
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