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1 According to Strabo, Albania was bounded on the east by the Caspian, and on the north by the Caucasus. On the west it joined Iberia, while on the south it was divided from the Greater Armenia by the river Cyrus. By later writers, the northern and western boundaries are differently given. It was found to be the fact that the Albani occupied the country on both sides of the Caucasus, and accordingly Pliny, in c. 15, carries the country further north, as far as the river Casius, while in this Chapter he makes the river Alazon, the modern Alasan, the western boundary towards Iberia. To the west of Albania.
2 To the west of Albania
3 Iberia lay south of the great chain of the Caucasus, forming an extensive tract bounded on the west by Colchis, on the east by Albania, and on the south by Armenia, and watered by the river Cyrus. It corresponded very nearly with modern Georgia.
4 The modern Alasan.
5 Now called Kablas-Var, according to Parisot.
6 Parisot says that this can be no other than Harmoza on the river Cyrus, in the vicinity of the modern Akhalzik.
7 Probably meaning "of the same name."
8 To the west.
9 "The Armenian workers in iron," or "Chalybes of Armenia." See p. 9.
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- Harper's, Polemonium
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CAUCASUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), IBE´RIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PARYADRES
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SACASSE´NE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SARMA´TICAE PORTAE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SUARNI
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- Lewis & Short, Chălybes
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- Lewis & Short, Macrŏcĕphăli
- Lewis & Short, Mĕlas
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