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Catippa
Asterabad [Kademga (Lapie)] (Miller) · Gorgan? (Barrington)
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Catippa seems to go back to Cathippus, a town that the late Roman historian Orosius places between the peoples of Hyrcania and Bactria. It is probably Zadrakarta, the capital of Hyrcania near the south-eastern corner of the Caspian Sea, now Gorgan in Iran. Zadrakarta was the fortified seat of a satrap, a Persian provincial governor, and Alexander the Great passed through it after Hecatompylos; the Roman historian Curtius simply calls it the city of Hyrcania, and Ptolemy its metropolis. How it relates to the other Hyrcanian towns, Sirynx, Tambrax and Tape, is still debated.
Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt).