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Orchistene

Ὀρχιστηνή

Orchistene (Ὀρχιστηνή, Strab. xi. p.528), a canton of Armenia, which Strabo (l.c.) describes as abounding in horses, but does not mention its position.

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.