Cadusia

Cadusia

Cadusia

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Cadusia the land of the Cadusians, a satrapy under Tanaoxares.[1]

According Moses Coit Tyler and George Rawlinson[2] Cadusia was a thin strip of country[3] along the south-eastern and southern shores of the Caspian, corresponding to the modern Gilan and Mazanderan. It hardly belonged to the great plateau, as it lay outside the Elburz mountain range, on the southern slopes of the chain, and between them and the Caspian Sea. It contained no important city, but was fertile, well-wooded and we'll-watered; and had a large population.[4] Strabo wrote, that Cadusia was being part of Atropatene.[5]

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  1. [1]
    Xenophon (1914). Xenophon: Cyropaedia II. London, New York: Harvard University Press. p. 466. ISBN 978-0-434-99052-8.
  2. [2]
    Rawlinson, George (1899). Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire. Colonial Press. p. 21.
  3. [3]
    Plutarch (1899). Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. J.M. Dent. p. 160.
  4. [4]
    Tyler, Moses Coit (1897). Ancient oriental nations and Greece. New York: R. S. Peale, J. A. Hill. p. 406.
  5. [5]
    Rees, Abraham (1805). The Cyclopædia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Philadelphia: Samuel F. Bradford and Murray, Fairman and Company.
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