[894] Mingrelia.
[895] Cappadocia comprehended a portion of the modern Roum and Karamania between the Euphrates and the river Halys.
[896] Under this name Strabo included a portion of the kingdom of Pontus and other small tribes as far as Colchis.
[897] Now the Kizil-Irmak.
[898] The northern and western portions of Phrygia.
[899] Probably an interpolation.
[900] The mountaineers of Paropamisus were those who inhabited the mountains which separate Bactriana from India. The Parthians occupied the mountains north of the modern Khorasan. Under the name of Medians Strabo comprehends the various nations who inhabited the mountainous country between Parthia and Armenia. The Cilicians inhabited Aladeuli; the Lycaonian mountaineers the mountains which separate Karaman from Itch-iili; and the Pisidians the country of Hamid.
[901] The Bay of Bengal.
[902] Ceylon.
[903] The Arians inhabited Sigistan and a part of modern Persia. Strabo gave the name of Arians to all the people who occupied the portions of Asia comprised between the Indus and Persia, and between the chain of the Taurus and Gedrosia and Carmania. In after-times the designation of Arians was restricted to the inhabitants of the modern Khorasan. Gedrosia is Mekran; Carmania yet preserves the name of Kerman.