Matiana
Μτιανή
Matiana (Μτιανή, Strab. ii. p.73, xi. p. 509; Steph. B. sub voce Ματιηνή, Hdt. 5.52: Eth.Ματιανός, Eth. Ματιηνός), a district of ancient Media, in the south-western part of its great subdivision called Media Atropatene, extending along the mountains which separate Armenia, and Assyria. Its boundaries are very uncertain, and it is not possible to determine how far it extended. It is probably the same as the Μαρτιανή of Ptolemy (6.2.5). [MARTIANE] Strabo mentions as a peculiarity of the trees in this district, that they distil honey (l.c.). The Matiani are included by Herodotus in the eighteenth satrapy of Dareius (3.94), and served in the army of Xerxes, being armed and equipped in the same manner as the Paphlagonians (7.72). Herodotus evidently considered them to occupy part of the more widely extended territory of Armenia.
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.