Matieni Montes
τὰ Ματιηνὰ ὄρη
Matieni Montes (τὰ Ματιηνὰ ὄρη, Hdt. 1.189, 202, 5.52), the ridge of mountains which forms the back-bone or centre of Matiana, doubtless part of the mountain range of Kurdistáan, in the neighbourhood of Ván. Herodotus makes them the watershed from which flowed the Gyndes and the Araxes, which is giving them too extended a range from N. to S. (1.189, 202).
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.