Cambyses
Καμβύσης
Cambyses (Καμβύσης, Ptol. 6.2.1; Amm. Marc. 23.6), a river of Media Atropatene, which appears, from the notice in Ptolemy, to have flowed into the Caspian Sea. It is not possible to determine its exact locality; but if the order in Ammianus be correct, it would seem to have been near the Amardus, now Sefid-Rúd. In the Epitome of Strabo (xi.) a nation of the Caspians is spoken of περὶ τὸν Καμβύσην ποταμόν.
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.