Identifier: studentsmanualof00smit (find matches)
Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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, and were subdivided into a vast number oftribes, whose names and localities, though interesting in an ethno-logical point of view, need not be specified here. The only townsknown to the ancients were situated on the shores of the Euxine,and were for the most part Greek colonies. We may notice Pityus,Pitsunda, N. of Dioscurias, described in the reign of GaLLienus as astrong fortress with an excellent haibour—Phanagoria, on the E.side of the Cimmerian Bosporus, founded by the Teians, a greatemporium for the trade of these districts, and the Asiatic capital of Chap. XII. TOWNS — CAUCASIAN PASS. 231 the kings of Bosporus, with a remarkable temple of Aphrodite :numerous tombs stand on the site, but the town itself has disap-peared, the materials having been carried away to other places—and Tanais, at the mouth of the river of the same name, a colony ofthe Milesians, and a place of large trade: it was destroyed byPolemon I., but probably restored : ruins of it exist near Nedrigoska.
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Pass cf tbe Caucasus. Persepolis. CHAPTER XIII. THE PROVINCES OF THE TEESTAX EMPIRE. I. Persis. § 1. Boundaries and physical character. § 2. Inhabitants;Divisions : Towns. II. Susiaxa. § 3. Boimdaries ; Rivers. § 4.Inhabitants ; Districts ; Towns. III. Media. § 5. Boundaries ;Districts: Mountains: Rivers. § 6. Inhabitants; Districts; Towns.IV. Ariaxa. § 7. Its extent and divisions; Carmania. Parthia^Aria. Paropamisada^. Drangiana, Gedrosia. Y. The XortherxPeovixces. § 8, Hyrcania, Margiana^ Bactriana, and SogcHana.§ 9. The Campaigns of Alexander the Great. § 10. India. § 11.Taprobane. § 12. Sinte. § 13. Serica. § 14. Scythia. § 15.Scythian Tribes. §1.1. Persis.—Of the provinces of the Persian empire Persis de-mands the earliest notice, as being the original seat of the race, andcontaining the metropolis, Persepolis. It was bounded on the X.by Media and Parthia, from which it was separated by the rangeof Parachoathras: on the AV. by Stisiana i on the S. by the Persian

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