Sacassene
Σακασσηνή
Sacassene (Σακασσηνή, Strab, ii. p. 73, xi. pp. 509, 511, 529: Eth. Sacassani, Plin. Nat. 6.11), a province of Armenia, on the borders of Gogarene, which it separated from the Valley of the Araxes, and which extended to the river Cyrus. St. Martin (Mém. sur l'Arménie, vol. i. pp. 143, 209, 210) identifies it with the Armenian province of Siounikh, which was governed up to the 12th century by a race of princes who traced their descent to Haig, first king of Armenia, and who in the 9th century had political relations with the Byzantine court. (Const. Porph. de Caeren. Aul. Byz. vol. i. p. 397.) The SACAPENE of Ptolemy (5.13.9) appears to be the same as this province.
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.