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Headword:
*parquhnh/
Adler number: pi,673
Translated headword: Parthyene, Parthia (?)
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A city [of that name].
Greek Original:*parquhnh/: po/lis.
Notes:
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. 'Parthyene' is not otherwise attested as a city, however; it was an entire region, on the present-day Iran/Turkmenistan border (Barrington Atlas map 97).
The satrapy of Parthia, from which the Parni [sic] (who later occupied it) acquired the name Parthian.
Keywords: definition; geography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 June 2001@04:43:48.
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