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Headword: *kedrwsi/a
Adler number: kappa,1227
Translated headword: Kedrosia, Gedrosia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A name of a city
Greek Original:
*kedrwsi/a: o)/noma po/lews.
Notes:
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.
Keywords: definition; geography; history
Translated by: Nicholas Fincher on 30 July 2003@23:14:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 31 July 2003@03:34:28.
David Whitehead on 27 July 2011@04:30:03.

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