6 flint's NATtTBAIi HISTOET. [Book VI. 



CHAP. 3. (3.) CAPPADOCIA. 



Cappadocia" has in the interior Archelais," a colony founded 

 i)y Claudius Csesar, and past which the river Halys flows ; also 

 the towns of Comana/^ watered by the Sarus, Neocsesarea,^' 

 by the Lycus/^ and Amasia,*' in the region of Gazacene, 

 washed by the Iris. In Colopene it has Sebastia and Sebas- 

 topolis ;" these are insignificant places, but still equal in im- 

 portance to those just mentioned. In its remaining districts 

 there is Melita," founded by Semiramis, and not far from the 

 Euphrates, Diocaesarea,*' Tyana," Castabala,"* Magnopolis," 



of Amisus. This new quarter contained the residence of the king, Mithri- 

 dates Eupator, who built Eupatoria. 



** The boundaries of Cappadocia Taried under the dominion of the Per- 

 sians, after the Macedonian conquest, and as a Roman province under the 

 emperors. 



« Founded by Archelaiis, the last king of Cappadocia. In Hamilton's 

 Sesearehes, the site has been assumed to be the modern Ak-serai, but that 

 place is not on the river Halys, as Leake supposes. It is, however, con- 

 sidered that Ak-serai agrees very ■well with the position of Archelais as 

 laid down in the Itineraries, and that Pliny may have been misled in sup- 

 posing that the stream on which it stood wa« the Halys. 



** Also called by the name of Chryse, or " Golden," to distinguish it 

 from another place of the same name in Pontus. It is generally supposed 

 that the town of Al-Bostan, on the Sihoon or Sarus, is on or near the site 

 of this Comana. 



*' Now called Niksar, according to D'Anville, though Hardouin says 

 that it is Tocat. Parisot remarks, that this place belonged rather to 

 Pontus than to Cappadocia. 



*9 A small tributary of the Iris, or Teshil-Irmak, mentioned in the next 

 Chapter. 



*• Still called Amasia, or Amasiyeh, and situate on the river Iris, or 

 Yeshil Ermak. It was at one time the residence of the princes of Pontus, 

 and the birth-place of the geographer Strabo. The remains of antiquity 

 here are very considerable, and extremely interesting. 



*> Both to the west of Neo-Caesarea. According to Tavemier, as quoted 

 by Hardouin, the modem name of Sebastia is Sivas. 



^ Which gave name to the district of Melitene, mentioned in c. 20 of 

 the last Book. 



" Near Nazianzus, in Cappadocia, the birth-place of Gregory Nazi- 

 anzen. The traveller Ainsworth, on his road from Ak Serai to Kara His- 

 sar, came to a place called Kaisar Eoi, and he has remarked that by its 

 name and_ position it might be identified with Diocsesarea. Some geo- 

 graphers, indeed, look upon Diocsesarea and Nazianzus as the same place. 

 , " Its ruins are still to be seen at Kiz Hisar. It stood in the south 

 of Cappadocia, at the northern foot of Mount Taurus. Tyana was the 



