*kedrwsi/a: o)/noma po/lews.
The spelling 'Kedrosia' is used by the Suda,
Diodorus Siculus and
Agatharchides. Most other authors, including
Strabo, Claudius
Ptolemy and
Stephanus of
Byzantium spell it 'Gedrosia'.
The term normally describes a chora/territory, not a city. If a city is meant, it is likely to be the ancient capital of at least the western part, the ancient Poura, probably at or near modern Pura.
Kedrosia/Gedrosia was west of the lower Indus valley, roughly the same as modern Baluchistan in present-day
Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iran. Large stretches of it were (and are) desert through which Alexander the Great famously marched his army on their return from India.
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