Caspians
The Caspians (
Old Iranian.[5]
The Caspians have generally been regarded as a pre-
Egyptian papyri are therefore generally considered as either an Iranian people or strongly under Iranian cultural influence.[5]
In the 5th century BC, during the
Bactrians and other Iranian peoples. They were not the only garrison on Elephantine. There was also a regiment of Jews.[8]
The Caspians are called Caspiani in
Zoroastrian custom of sky burial, one in which the deceased is left for the dogs to devour.[10]
The Caspiadeans reappear in the
Seljuk Turks, the Crusaders' actual enemy, with the ancient Scythians.[11]
References
- ^ Robert H. Hewsen. The Geography of Ananias of Širak: Ašxarhacʻoycʻ, the Long and the Short Recensions. — Reichert, 1992. — P. 254.
- ^ "A Cyro Caspium mare vocari incipit; accolunt Caspii" (Pliny, Natural History vi.13); for a Greek ethnonym of the Aegean Sea, however, see the mythic Aegeus.
- Sacae).
- ^ Strabo (11.2.15) gives a lost work of Eratosthenes as his source.
- ^ Encyclopedia Iranica. Accessed on 4 April 2010.
- ^ Herzfeld, The Persian Empire, (Wiesbaden) 1968:195–99, noted by Rüdiger.
- ^ Grelot, “Notes d'onomastique sur les textes araméens d'Egypte,” Semitica 21, 1971, esp. pp. 101–17, noted by Rüdiger.
- ^ Smith, William (1849). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. C.C. Little and J. Brown. p. 272.
- ^ Henri J. W. Wijsman (ed.), Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book VI: A Commentary (Brill, 2000), p. 59.
- ^ Nicholas Morton, Encountering Islam on the First Crusade (Cambridge University Press, 2016), p. 203.