Carduene

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Diyarbakır Nusaybin Zaxo

Limits of the Carduene

The Corduene or Carduene of the Roman sources was a landscape in the Zagros or the Armenian highlands . It lay between Arzanene in the west, Zabdiene in the south, Adiabene in the southeast, the Sophene in the southwest, Moxoene and Armenia in the north. Driver describes it as the mountainous region between Diyarbakır , Nusaybin and Zaxo .

According to the church history of Philostorgius (III, 7, also with Nikephorus Kallistos ), numerous tributaries of the Tigris arise in the Carduene, opposite Syria . Iulius Honorius ' Cosmographia knows a city Corduena, around which the rivers Chrysorroas and Tigris flow .

Equations

The inhabitants of the Carduene are mostly equated with the Karduchoi of Xenophon ( Anabasis ) and Strabons Gordiene . According to Pliny , the Karduchoi border on the Azoni , which Driver suspects to be in Ḥazzu . The Qardū of the early Syrian sources may also correspond to the Carduene. Corduene was in the lands of Sem . However, this Qardū is the land in which Noah's ark landed and should therefore be in the area of ​​the Ararat or the Cudi Dağı .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} G. R. Driver, p. 564
2. ↑ ^{a b} G. R. Driver, p. 565
3. ↑ Naturalis historia , 5, 30, 118
4. ^ GR Driver, p. 563

literature

• GR Driver: The dispersion of the Kurds in ancient times . Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland October 4, 1921, pp. 563-572.