Thospitis
Θωσπῖτις
Thospitis (Θωσπῖτις, Ptol. 5.13.18), a district of Armenia Major. It lay at the northern side of the LACUS THOSPITES (ἡ Θωσπῖτις λίμνη, Ptol. ib. § 7), through which the Tigris flowed (Plin. Nat. 6.27. s. 31). It is perhaps the same lake called Thonitis or Thopitis by Strabo (Θωνῖτις or Θωπῖτις, xi. p. 529), and Priscian (Lacus Thonitidis, Perieg. 913), the water of which is described by Strabo as nitrous and undrinkable. It is probably the modern Wan, in the district of Tosp, and hence called by the Armenians Dzow Tospai.
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.