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1 16 Inhabited anciently by the Coli, and constituting the northern portion of ancient Colchis.
2 In B. v. c. 27.
3 Or nation "with the black cloaks," from some peculiarity in their dress.
4 This was the great trading-place of the wild tribes in the interior; and so numerous were they, that the Greeks asserted that there were seventy different languages spoken in the market of Dioscurias.
5 Whence the appellation Heniochi, from the Greek ἡνιοχὸς.
6 There were two places called Heracleium on this coast, one north and the other south of the river Achæus: probably the latter is here meant.
7 Probably meaning the "martial people," or the "people of Mars."
8 Said to have been descended from the Achæns or Greeks who accompanied Jason in the Argonautic Expedition, or, according to Ammianus, who resorted thither after the conclusion of the Trojan war.
9 This was the title, not of a single nation, but of a number of peoples distinguished for their predatory habits.
10 This people occupied the N.E. shore of the Euxine, between the Cimmerian Bosporus and the frontier of Colchis. Their name is still in existence, and is applied to the whole western district of the Caucasus, in the forms of Tcherkas, as applied to the people, and Tcherkeskaia or Circassia, to the country.
11 Meaning, nearly in the extreme corner of Pontus.
12 In the time of Strabo this was a considerable sea-port, and after its destruction by the Heniochi, it was restored, and served as an important frontier fortress of the Roman empire against the Scythians.
13 This was Mithridates, king of Bosporus, which sovereignty he obtained by the favour of the emperor Claudius, in A.D. 41. The circumstances are unknown which led to his subsequent expulsion by the Romans, who placed his younger brother Cotys on the throne in his stead.
14 Hardouin thinks that the Thalli inhabited the present country of Astrakan.
15 It was the ancient opinion, to which we shall find frequent reference made in the present Book, that the northern portion of the Caspian communicated with the Scythian or Septentrional ocean.
16 Mentioned only by Pliny. It is supposed to answer to the present Ukrash river; and the town and river of Hierus are probably identical with the Hieros Portus of Arrian, which has been identified with the modern Sunjuk-Kala.
17 Inhabited by the Sindi, a people of Asiatic Sarmatia. They probably dwelt in and about the modern peninsula of Taman, between the Sea of Azof and the Black Sea, to the south of the river Hypanis, the modern Kouban. The site of their capital, Sindos, or Sinda, is supposed to have been the modern Anapa. Parisot conjectures that this place was one of the ancient settlements of the Zigeunes, the modern Bohemians or Gypsies. He seems to found his opinion upon some observations of Malte Brun (Précis de Geographie, vol. vi.) upon the origin of the Gypsy race, which will amply repay the perusal.
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CAUCASUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CE´RCETAE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), COLCHIS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), COLI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CORAXI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), DIOSCU´RIAS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), HERACLEIUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), HIRROS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ICARUSA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MARDYE´NI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MELANCHLAENI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MITHRIDA´TIS RE´GIO
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PITYUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SERRI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SETHERIES
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), THALLI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TO´RETAE
- Smith's Bio, Amphi'stratus
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