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Now the nature of this road 1 is as I will show. All along it are the king's road stations and very good resting places, and the whole of it passes through country that is inhabited and safe. Its course through Lydia [27.516,38.683] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Lydia and Phrygia (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Phrygia is of the length of twenty stages, and ninety-four and a half parasangs.
Now the nature of this road 1 is as I will show. All along it are the king's road stations and very good resting places, and the whole of it passes through country that is inhabited and safe. Its course through Lydia [27.516,38.683] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Lydia and Phrygia (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Phrygia is of the length of twenty stages, and ninety-four and a half parasangs.
[2] Next after
Phrygia (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Phrygia it comes to the river
Halys River (river), Turkey, Asia Halys, where there is both a defile which must be passed before the river can be crossed and a great fortress to guard it. After the passage into
+Cappadocia [36,38.5] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Cappadocia, the road in that land as far as the borders of
Cilicia [34.333,36.666] (region (general)), Turkey, AsiaCilicia is of twenty-eight stages and one hundred and four parasangs. On this frontier you must ride through two defiles and pass two fortresses.
[3] Ride past these, and you will have a journey through
Cilica of three stages and fifteen and a half parasangs. The boundary of
Cilicia [34.333,36.666] (region (general)), Turkey, AsiaCilicia and
Armenia (region (general)), AsiaArmenia is a navigable river, the name of which is the
Euphrates [47.5,31.83] (river), AsiaEuphrates. In
Armenia (region (general)), AsiaArmenia there are fifteen resting-stages and fifty-six and a half parasangs. Here too there is a fortress. From
Armenia (region (general)), AsiaArmenia the road enters the
Matienian land, in which there are thirty-four stages and one hundred and thirty-seven parasangs.
[4] Through this land flow four navigable rivers which must be passed by ferries, first the
Tigris [47.416,31] (river), AsiaTigris, then a second and a third of the same name, yet not the same stream nor flowing from the same source. The first-mentioned of them flows from the
Armenians and the second from the
Matieni.
[5] The fourth river is called
Gyndes, that
Gyndes which
Cyrus parted once into three hundred and sixty channels.
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[6] When this country is passed, the road is in the
Cissian land, where there are eleven stages and forty-two and a half parasangs, as far as yet another navigable river, the
Choaspes, on the banks of which stands the city of
Shush [48.333,32.2] (inhabited place), Khuzestan, Iran, AsiaSusa.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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