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Black Sea, and the same distance, or, by an estimate 

 which some prefer, 312i miles from the Straits of 

 Kertsch. There was formerly also a to^vTi of the 

 same name, and then another called Armine ; and 

 at the present day there is the colony of S ,nrib, 

 164 miles from Mount Cytorus ; the river Evarchus, a 

 tribe of Cappadocians, the town of Caturia Zaceplum, 

 and the river Halys " that flows down from the base of 

 Mount Taurus througli Cataonia and Cappadocia; 

 the to^\-ns of Gamge and Carusa, the free to-\\Ti of 

 Amisus 130 miles from Sinab, and the bay of the 

 same name which runs so far inland as to give to 

 Asia the shape of a peninsula,'' the isthmus measuring 

 not more than 200 miles across to the Gulf of Lssus 

 in Cihcia. It is reported that in all this region there 

 are only three races that can rightly be designated 

 Greek, the Dorian, the lonian and the Aeolian, all 

 the rest being tribes of barbarians. To Amisus was 

 attached the town of Eupatoria, founded by Mithri- 

 dates ; <^ after he had been conquered, the two places 

 were united under the name of PompeiopoHs. 



III. Cappadocia contains in its interior a colony cappadoda. 

 of Claudius Caesar named Archelais, past which 

 flows the river Halys, and the towns of Comana on 

 the Sahus, Neocaesarea on thc Lycus, and Amasia 

 on the Iris in the region of Gazacena ; while in 

 the Colopene region are Sebastia and Sebastopol, 

 which are small towns but equal in importance to 

 those mentioncd above ; and in the remaining part 

 of Cappadocia are Melita, founded by Samiramis, 

 not far from the Euphrates, Diocaesarea, Tyana, 

 Castabala, Magnopohs, Zela, and under Mount 

 Argaeus Mazacas, now named Caesarea. The part 

 of Cappadocia adjaccnt to Grcater Armenia is called 



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