Hyrcania
Ὑρκανία μητρόπολις
Hyrcania (Ὑρκανία μητρόπολις, Ptol. 6.9.7, 8.23.3; Hyrcana, Amm. Marc. 23.6), a town placed by Ptolemy to the east of the river Maxera in Hyrcania (probably the modern Tedjin). It is most likely represented by the modern Gurkan or Jorjan, a place to the NE. of Asterabad.
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.