Region
Caspiane
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Caspiane was the land of the Caspians, the people after whom, as the Greek geographer Strabo reports, the Caspian Sea itself was named. By his day the tribe had vanished, and Caspiane meant the part of Caucasian Albania lying directly on that sea, near the river Cyrus, the modern Kura. Much earlier, Caspians paid tribute to the Persian king Darius, marched with Xerxes against Greece and even served in a garrison at Elephantine in Egypt. The map writes the name without a picture and, like its other Caucasian peoples, pushes it too far east, an entry that probably goes back to early Hellenistic sources.