Arbelitis
Ἀρβηλῖτις χώρα
Arbelitis (Ἀρβηλῖτις χώρα, Ptol. 6.1.2), the district around Arbela, which Pliny (6.13. s. 16) calls a part of Adiabene. In Strabo (xvi. p.738) the district around Arbela is called ARTACENE (Ἀρτακηνή), a name otherwise quite unknown. Scaliger (ad Tibull. 4.1. 142) connects the name with the ERECH of Scripture (Gen. 10.10), and therefore proposes to read ARACTENE (Ἀρακτηνή); but Erech was not in this position; and we ought probably to read ARBELENE in Strabo. (See Groskurd's Strabo, vol. iii. p. 208.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.