Cambysene was a region first attested in the Geographica ("Geography") of the ancient geographer and historian Strabo (64/3 BC – AD). According to Strabo, it comprised one of the northernmost provinces of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia, and bordered on the Caucasus Mountains and was a rough and waterless region through which a pass connecting Caucasian Albania and Iberia passed. It was eventually lost by Armenia to Caucasian Albania, likely after 69 BC.
Cambysene was a region first attested in the Geographica ("Geography") of the ancient geographer and historian Strabo (64/3 BC – AD). According to Strabo, it comprised one of the northernmost provinces of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia, and bordered on the Caucasus Mountains and was a rough and waterless region through which a pass connecting Caucasian Albania and Iberia passed. It was eventually lost by Armenia to Caucasian Albania, likely after 69 BC.
==Name== The spelling Cambysene is the Latin form of the Greek , which in turn was formed at some point in the Hellenistic period from an indigenous name which corresponded to Armenian Kʿambēčan. In Georgian the name is written as and in Arabic as Qambīzān. According to the 6th-century geographer Stephen of Byzantium, following popular but unverified traditional etymology, '' was a ("Persian country") named after Cambyses II (530–522 BC), King of Kings of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. This claim is rejected by modern-day academics, who point to the Cambyses (modern Iori) River, a tributary of the Cyrus (Kura) River, as the origin of the word. According to the Iranologist Ernst Herzfeld (1879–1948) both the Cyrus and Cambyses rivers as well as the Old Persian names Kuruš and Kambūjiya'' were derived from two ethnic groups; although considered to be an attractive assumption, Herzfeld's hypothesis is viewed as doubtful by Marie Louise Chaumont. Wilhelm Tomaschek connects the name to Armenian 'buffalo'.
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