Triacontaschoenus
Τριακοντάσχοινος
Triacontaschoenus (Τριακοντάσχοινος, Ptol. 4.7.32), a district so named by Ptolemy after the analogy of the Dodecaschoenus of Egypt, and forming the most northern part of Aethiopia on the W. side of the Nile, between the cataracts of that river and the Aethiopian mountains.
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.