Xerxene
Ξερξηνή
Xerxene (Ξερξηνή, Strab. xi. p.528), a district on the Euphrates, in the NW. part of Armenia, more properly, however, belonging to Cappadocia. It is called Derxene by Pliny (5.24. s. 20), and this perhaps is the more correct name. (Cf. Ritter, Erdk. x. p. 769.)
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.