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Orcheni

Ὀρχηνοί

Eth. Orcheni (Ὀρχηνοί), a people of Arabia Deserta, placed by Ptolemy on the Persian Gulf, i. e. to the NE. of his Arabia Felix. (Ptol. 5.19.2.) They were perhaps the inhabitants of Orchoe mentioned below.

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.