Catarzene
Καταρζηνή
Catarzene (Καταρζηνή, Ptol. 5.13.9), a district of Armenia, lying near the mountains of the Moschi, by the Avanes. The name Cotacene occurs as a gloss upon Ptolemy, and St. Martin (Mém. sur l'Armenie, vol i. p. 108) identifies it with the Armenian name Godaïkh, one of the 16 districts of the province of Ararat. The capital of this district was Edschmiadzin, well known in the ecclesiastical history of Armenia. (St. Martin, l.c.; comp. Ritter, Erdkunde, vol. x. p. 514.)
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.