Kitap 2
5.31
Secondly, but still on this side the Taurus, are the countries above the Sea of Hyrcania as far as the Indians and Scythians, who dwell along the said seaThe Bay of Bengal. and Mount Imaus. These countries are possessed on the one side by the Maeotae,Sarmatian Maeotae in the Greek text, but apparently incorrect. and the people dwelling between the Sea of Hyrcania and the Euxine as far as the Caucasus, the IberiansInhabitants of Georgia. and Albanians,Inhabitants of Shirvan. viz. the Sauromatians, Scythians,The Scythians here alluded to are the Tartars of Kuban; the Achaeans and Zygi are the modern Ziketi; the Heniochi are the Abkazeti. Achtaeans, Zygi, and Heniochi: on the other side beyond the Sea of Hyrcania,East of the Caspian. by the Scythians,These Scythians are the Tartars of the Kharasm. The Hyrcanians are the inhabitants of Daghistan and the Corcan. The Parthians occupied the north of Khorasan; the Bactrians the country of Balk. The Sogdians inhabited Bukaria, where are Samarcand and the valley of Al-Sogd. Hyrcanians, Parthians, Bactrians, Sogdians, and the other nations of India farther towards the north. To the south, partly by the Sea of Hyrcania, and partly by the whole isthmus which separates this sea from the Euxine, is situated the greater part of Armenia, Colchis,Mingrelia. the whole of CappadociaCappadocia comprehended a portion of the modern Roum and Karamania between the Euphrates and the river Halys. as far as the Euxine, and the Tibaranic nations.Under this name Strabo included a portion of the kingdom of Pontus and other small tribes as far as Colchis. Further [west] is the country designated on this side the Halys,Now the Kizil-Irmak. containing on the side of the Euxine and Propontis the Paphlagonians, Bithynians, Mysians, and Phrygia on the Hellespont, which comprehends the Troad; and on the side of the Aegaean and adjacent seas Aeolia, Ionia, Caria, and Lycia. Inland is the Phrygia which contains that portion of Gallo-Graecia styled Galatia, Phrygia Epictetus,The northern and western portions of Phrygia. the Lycaonians, and the Lydians.
