ARRHAPACHI´TIS
ARRHAPACHI´TIS (
Ἀρραπαχῖτις,
Ptol. 6.1.2), a district of Assyria Proper, adjoining Armenia, named probably from a town which Ptol. (6.1 § 6) calls Arrhapa (
Ἄρριανά).
The name is, perhaps, connected with Arphaxad, as Bochart (
Geog. Sacr. 2.100.4) has conjectured.
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