Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Margiāna

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Margiāna

（Μαργιανή). A province of the ancient Persian Empire, bounded on the east by Bactriana, on the northeast and north by the river Oxus, and on the west by Hyrcania. It received its name from the river Margus, which flows through it. On this river stood the capital of the district, Antiochia Margiana, which was founded by Alexander the Great and rebuilt by Antiochus I. Margiana corresponds to the southern part of Khiva and Bokhara and the northeastern part of Khorassan. Its chief inhabitants were the Derbices, Dahae, and Mardi.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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