Ardericca
Ἀρδέρικκα
Ardericca (Ἀρδέρικκα), a small place in Assyria on the Euphrates above Babylon (Hdt. 1.185), about which the course of the Euphrates was made very tortuous by artificial cuts. The passage of Herodotus is unintelligible to us, and the site of Ardericca unknown.
Herodotus (6.119) gives the same name to another place in Cissia to which Darius, the son of Hystaspes, removed the captives of Eretria. It was, according to Herodotus, 210 stadia from Susa (Sus), and 40 stadia from the spring from which were got asphalt, salt, and oil.
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.