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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 210 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HYRCANIA . (1) An See also:

ancient See also:district of See also:Asia, See also:south of the See also:Caspian See also:Sea, and bounded on the E. by the See also:river See also:Oxus, called V irkana, or " See also:Wolf's See also:Land," in Old See also:Persian. It was a wide and indefinite See also:tract. Its See also:chief See also:city is called Tape by See also:Strabo, Zadracarta by See also:Arrian (probably the See also:modern See also:Astarabad). The latter is evidently the same as Carta, mentioned by Strabo as an important city. Little is known of the See also:history of the See also:country. See also:Xenophon says it was subdued by the Assyrians; See also:Curtius that 6000 Hyrcanians were in the See also:army of See also:Darius III. (2) Two towns named Hyrcania are mentioned, one in Hyrcania, the other in See also:Lydia. The latter is said to have derived its name from a See also:colony of Hyrcanians, transported thither by the Persians.

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