Michael Weiskopf

DASCYLIUM
DASCYLIUM, Achaemenid satrapy in northwestern Anatolia (Herodotus, 3.120.2; cf. Thucydides 1.129.1: tḕn Daskulitìn satrapeían; OPers. tayaiy drayahyā; DB 1.15; Kent,…
DĀRĀ (City)
DĀRĀ, the name of a Parthian city and of a Byzantine garrison town of the Sasanian period. Parthian Dārā. This…
CYPRUS
CYPRUS, an island in the eastern Mediterranean off the southern coast of central Anatolia, not mentioned in any of the…
COMMAGENE
COMMAGENE, the portion of southwestern Asia Minor (modern Turkey) bordered on the east by the Euphrates river, on the west…
CILICIA
CILICIA (3rd-cent. CE Mid. Pers. klkyʾy, Parth. kylkyʾ), the southeastern portion of the present Turkish coast, a satrapy of the Achaemenid…
CICERO
CICERO, as a source for Parthian history. In 51 b.c.e., two years after the Parthian destruction of the Roman legions…
CASTOLUS
CASTOLUS, a plain east of Sardis, site of the mustering of troops from the satrapy of Sparda (Lydia) during Achaemenid…
CARIA
CARIA, Achaemenid satrapy in the area of southwestern Turkey. Caria was under Achaemenid rule first as a part of the…
CAPPADOCIA
CAPPADOCIA, Anatolian Achaemenid satrapy, Hellenistic-era Iranian kingdom, and imperial Roman province. The Old Persian name of the satrapy was Katpatuka;…
BESSOS
BESSOS, satrap of Bactria and last Achaemenid king (ca. 336-329 b.c.). His career as described by Greco-Roman historians of Alexander’s…

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