Hyrcania
Ὑρκανία
Hyrcania (Ὑρκανία: Eth. Ὑρκανός), the name of a town in Lydia, situated in the Hyrcanian plain (τὸ Ὑρκάνιον πεδίον), which is said to have derived its name from a colony of Hyrcanians being settled here by the Persians. (Strab. xiii. p.629; comp. Steph. B. sub voce They were afterwards mingled with some Macedonians, who also settled in this district, whence they are called by Pliny and Tacitus Macedones Hyrcani.
(Plin. Nat. 5.29. s. 31; Tac. Ann. 2.47.) There were two towns in this plain: one called Hyrcania, and the other Mosteni. (Tac. l.c.; Ptol. 5.2.16.)
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.