Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.E. Kroll
Creators: S.E. Kroll
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 03, 2026 08:25 PM
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History
The Caspian Sea is a remnant of a larger, inland sea and is now the world's largest enclosed body of water. It has been classified as both a lake and a sea.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/884130
40.4329845173, 50.1075466538
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (550 BC - AD 640)
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- Baḥr-i Ḫazar (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Caspium (Latin, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Hyrcanium mare, MARE HYRCANIVM (Hyrcanium Mare: Latin, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Κασπία θάλαττα (Kaspia thalatta: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Absheron (peninsula) located on Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Albanos (river) connection Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Albanum Mare part of (physical/topographic) Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Alontas (river) flows into Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Amardos (river) flows into Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Atrek/Sideris?/Sarnios? (river) flows into Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Gerros (river) flows into Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Kyros (river) flows into Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Rha/Attila (river) connection Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Straton (river) flows into Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Tzon/Tzur connection Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Varkana/Hyrcania/Gurgan connection Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
water, open, lake
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 90 F2 Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Caspian Sea.
S.E. Kroll, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/884130> [accessed: 06 September 2026]
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