Catanii
Κατάνιοι
Eth. Catanii (Eth. Κατάνιοι), a tribe of Arabia Deserta, bounded by Syria on the west and the Cauchabeni on the east. (Ptol. 5.19.) Burckhardt mentions the Bedouin tribe of Kahtanys, who range the northern desert of Arabia, from Bosra to the neigh-bourhood of Hauran and Aleppo.
These Mr. Forster takes to be the representatives of the ancient Catanii (Arabia, vol. ii. p. 238, seq.).
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.