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Arrhapachitis

Ἀρραπαχῖτις

Arrhapachitis (Ἀρραπαχῖτις, Ptol. 6.1.2), a district of Assyria Proper, adjoining Armenia, named probably from a town which Ptol. (6.1 § 6) calls Arrhapa (Ἄρριανά). The name is, perhaps, connected with Arphaxad, as Bochart (Geog. Sacr. 2.100.4) has conjectured.

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.