Geography

• Zaba a small place on the northern coast of Taprobane or Ceylon, noticed by Ptolemy (7.4.13). I
• Zabae a town of some importance in India intra Gangem, on the sinus Gangeticus, perhaps the mode
• Zabatus a river of Assyria, first noticed by Xenophon (Xen. Anab. 2.5.1, 3.3.6), and the same as t
• Zabe a district in Mauretania Sitifensis. According to the Not. Imp. it contained a town of the
• Zacynthus an island in the Sicilian sea, lying off the western coast of Peloponnesus, opposite the p
• Zagatis a coast river in the E. part of Pontus, discharging itself into the Euxine about 7 stadia
• Zagorus or ZAGORUM (Ζάγωρος, or Ζάγωρον, Marcian. p. 73; Ζάγειρα, Ptol. 5.4.5; Ζάγωρα, Arrian, Per
• Zagrus Mons Mons (ὁ Ζάγρος, τὸ Ζάγρον ὄρος, Plb. 5.44; Ptol. 6.2.4; Strab. xi. p.522), the central por
• Zaitha or ZAUTHA (Ζαυθζα, Zosim. 3.14), a small town or fortified place in Mesopotamia, on the Eu
• Zalacus a mountain chain of Mauretania near the river Chinalaph, the highest and most rugged branc
• Zaldapa a town in the interior of Lower Moesia. It is called Saldapa by Theophylact (Σάλδαπα, 1.8)
• Zalecus a small river on the coast of Paphlagonia, discharging itself into the Euxine at a distanc
• Zaliches a town in the interior of Paphlagonia, or what, at a late period, was called Hellenopontus
• Zama a town of Numidia, situated five days' journey to the SW. of Carthage. (Plb. 15.5; Liv. 30
• Zamae Fons Fons a spring in Africa, probably near the town of Zama, which had the property of renderi
• Zames a mountain chain in the interior of Arabia Felix, which stretched as far as the borders of
• Zao Promontorium Promontorium a headland on the coast of Gallia Narbonensis, and east of Massilia (Marseill
• Zara a town in the northern part of Armenia Minor, or perhaps more correctly in Pontus, on the
• Zaradrus the upper portion of the Hyphasis, the most eastern of the five rivers of the Panjáb, now
• Zarai Zarai a town in the interior of Numidia, on the road from Lamasba to Sitifis. (Itin. Ant.
• Zarax (Ζάραξ, Paus., Polyb.; Ζάρηξ, Ptol.: Eth. Ζαρήκιος, Steph. B. sub voce a town on the easte
• Zaueces Zaueces (Ζαυῆκες, Hdt. 4.193), a people of Libya, dwelling in a woody and mountainous coun
• Zela a town in the interior of Pontus, on the left bank of the Iris, towards the Galatian front
• Zeleia a town of Troas, at the foot of Mount Ida and on the banks of the river Aesepus, at a dist
• Zenobii Insulae Insulae (Ζηνοβίου νησία, Ptol. 6.7.47), seven small islands lying in the Sinus Sachalites,
• Zenodotium (Ζηνοδότιον, D. C. 40.12; Steph. B. sub voce a strong castle in the upper part of Mesopota
• Zenonis Chersonesus Chersonesus (Ζήνωνος Χερσόνησος, Ptol. 3.6.4), a point of land on the N. coast of the Cher
• Zephyrium the name of a great number of promontories, as 1. At the western extremity of the peninsul
• Zephyrium . 1. A promontory on the E. part of the N. coast of Crete, near the town of Apollonia. Now
• Zephyrium Promontorium Promontorium (τὸ Ζεφύριον: Capo di Bruzzano), a promontory on the E. coast of the Bruttian
• Zernes a fortress in Upper Moesia, apparently the present Old Orsowa, at the mouth of the Tzerna.
• Zerynthus (Ζήρυνθος, Lycophr. 77; Steph. B. sub voce a town of Thrace not far from the borders of th
• Zesutera a town in the SE. of Thrace, on the Egnatian Way, between Apri and Siracellae, which Lapie
• Zeugitana Regio Regio the more northern part of the Roman province of Africa. Pliny seems to be the earlie
• Zeugma 1. (Σεῦγμα, Ptol. 5.15.14), a town founded by Seleucus Nicator, in the province of Cyrrhes
• Zicchi Zicchi (Ζικχοί, Arrian, Perip. P. Eux. p. 19), ZINCHI (Ζιγχοί, Ptol. 5.9.18), or ZINGI (Pl
• Ziklag a town in the tribe of Simeon (Jos. 19.5), which at first belonged to the Philistine city
• Zilia a river on the W. coast of Mauretania Tingitana, which fell into the sea near the town of
• Zilia a town of some importance on the W. coast of Mauretania Tingitana, at the mouth…
• Zimara a town in Armenia Minor, on the road from Satala to Melitena, between Anatiba and Teucira
• Zingis Promontorium Promontorium (Ζίγγις Ptol. 1.17.9, 4.7.11), probably the Modern Maroe, was a headland on t
• Zioberis a small river of Parthia mentioned by Curtius (6.4.4). It is probably the same as the Stib
• Ziphene a district of Palaestina, in the neighbourhood of M<*> Carmel, which probably took its nam
• Ziridava a town in Dacia, most probably Szereka on the Broosch (cf. Katancsich, Istri Accolae, ii.
• Zirinae a town in Thrace, on the Hebrus, between Trajanopolis and Plotinopolis. Reichard places…
• Zitha or ZEITHA (Ζείθα, Ptol. 5.18.6), a small place in Mesopotamia near the Euphrates, noticed
• Zitha a promontory in Africa Propria between the two Syrtes and W. of Sabathra. On it lay the pl
• Zoara Josephus, in describing…
• Zoelae a town of the Astures in Hispania Tarraconensis, not far from the sea, and noted for the c
• Zone a town on the S. coast of Thrace, on a…
• Zorambus a small stream on the coast of Gedrosia, mentioned by Marcian (Peripl. 100.29, ed. Müller)
• Zoroanda a place on the range of Mount Taurus, where the Tigris fell into a cavern, and reappeared
• Zuchis a lake 400 stadia long, with a town of the same name upon it, in Libya, not far from the L
• Zumi Zumi (Eth. Ζοῦμοι), a German tribe occupying a district in the neighbourhood of the Lugii,
• Zusidava a town of Dacia, probably on the site of the ruins called Tschetatie de Pömunt, below Burl
• Zydretae a people of Colchis, on the coast of the Pontus Euxinus, on the S. side of the Phasis, and
• Zygantis a town of Libya, whose inhabitants were noted for their preparation of honey. Hence Klause
• Zygi Zygi (Ζαγοί; Strab. xi. p.496), a wild and savage people on the Pontus Euxinus in Asiatic
• Zygopolis a town in Pontus, in the neighbourhood of Colchis. Stephanus B. (p. 290) conjectures that
• Zygris a village on the coast of the Libyan Nomos in Marmarica, which seems to have given name to