Nomenclature
Greek Name: Σύριος
Latin Name:
Toponyms:
Cultural Notes
had been subjects of the Medes before being subject to the Persians
Geographical Notes
third Persian province, next to the river Halys, which rises in the mountains of Armenia, flows through Cilicia, and then continues with Matiene to the north and Phrygia to the south; after leaving these countries sbehind, its course takes it north, where it skirts the territory of the Syrian cappadocians and to the west that of the Paphlagonians.
Citations in Herodotos
3.90
Key Passages in English Translation
English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Retreived from <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu>
Key Passages in Greek
Other Testimonia
Other Commentary
Perseus Encyclopedia:
W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotos:
Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
Disambiguation
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