From Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, Asia Babylon and the rest of Assyria came to Darius a thousand talents of silver and five hundred castrated boys; this was the ninth province; +Hamadan [48.583,34.766] (inhabited place), Hamadan, Iran, Asia Ecbatana and the rest of Media, with the Paricanians and Orthocorybantians, paid four hundred and fifty talents, and was the tenth province.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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