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1. NATURAL FEATURES AND ETHNOLOGY. 251
is common in the lakes that lie in a similar position along the
northern front of Taurus) by hidden channels under the mountains
towards the coast-valleys.
The river Indos, rising from the region of Cibyra (which lies on
higher ground west from the southern end of the valley), flows north up
the valley to its west point near Beder-Bey l, where it is joined by the
Kazanes flowing south from M. Kadmos ; and the united waters find
their way through a pass in the western ridge towards the western sea,
forming during part of their course the boundary between Lycia and
Caria. The Kazanes is also fed by a stream coming from the high-
lying valley of Khoros and Geune, through a gorge in the eastern
ridge.
Themisonion is the chief city of the Kazanes valley, Cibyra of the
Indos valley, and Eriza lies not far from the junction in a strong
situation on the eastern hills near Dere-Keui. The history and the
topography of this district are inextricably intertwined and must be
treated together. Hardly any allusions occur in our authorities to
any part of it, except Cibyra. Pausanias refers to the invasion of the
Gauls, and Livy describes in brief terms the march of Cn. Manlius
Vulso through it in his predatory raid 189 B.C. Strabo alludes to it
very briefly, and his words are in several points so obscure as to
show that he had no clear conception of its situation and had not seen
it himself. Yet the valley must have been very important during the
third and second centuries b. c. The great route from Pergamos and
the north-west to Pamphylia and Cyprus passes through it; and much
of the struggle between the Seleucid and the Pergarnenian kings took
place in it. We learn more about the character of that struggle, so
far as its influence on the social conditions of Asia Minor is concerned,
in this district than in any other part of Phrygia.
No name is known for the valley as a whole. It has been called
by Cramer and others the Killanian plain, but incorrectly (Ch. IX).
It is certain (as we shall see) that the southern part of the valley,
including the territory of Cibyra, was reckoned by Strabo as part of
Kabalis, but the northern part including the territory of Themisonion
was assigned by him, p. 576, to Phrygia. The tribe Erizenoi, the
original population of the Kazanes valley, however, seems to have
been reckoned by Strabo as Pisidian2, on which were superinduced
1 The Austrian Expedition and Prof. on the Phrygian frontier; but Strabo,
Kiepert give the name as Peder-Bey who considered that the valley of Tabai
(Peder means/atfier); Beder is an Arabic contained a mixed Phrygian and Pisi-
name (compare Bedr-ed-din). dian population, cannot have considered
2 Ptolemy puts the Erizenoi in Caria the Erizenoi as Carians. He actually
is common in the lakes that lie in a similar position along the
northern front of Taurus) by hidden channels under the mountains
towards the coast-valleys.
The river Indos, rising from the region of Cibyra (which lies on
higher ground west from the southern end of the valley), flows north up
the valley to its west point near Beder-Bey l, where it is joined by the
Kazanes flowing south from M. Kadmos ; and the united waters find
their way through a pass in the western ridge towards the western sea,
forming during part of their course the boundary between Lycia and
Caria. The Kazanes is also fed by a stream coming from the high-
lying valley of Khoros and Geune, through a gorge in the eastern
ridge.
Themisonion is the chief city of the Kazanes valley, Cibyra of the
Indos valley, and Eriza lies not far from the junction in a strong
situation on the eastern hills near Dere-Keui. The history and the
topography of this district are inextricably intertwined and must be
treated together. Hardly any allusions occur in our authorities to
any part of it, except Cibyra. Pausanias refers to the invasion of the
Gauls, and Livy describes in brief terms the march of Cn. Manlius
Vulso through it in his predatory raid 189 B.C. Strabo alludes to it
very briefly, and his words are in several points so obscure as to
show that he had no clear conception of its situation and had not seen
it himself. Yet the valley must have been very important during the
third and second centuries b. c. The great route from Pergamos and
the north-west to Pamphylia and Cyprus passes through it; and much
of the struggle between the Seleucid and the Pergarnenian kings took
place in it. We learn more about the character of that struggle, so
far as its influence on the social conditions of Asia Minor is concerned,
in this district than in any other part of Phrygia.
No name is known for the valley as a whole. It has been called
by Cramer and others the Killanian plain, but incorrectly (Ch. IX).
It is certain (as we shall see) that the southern part of the valley,
including the territory of Cibyra, was reckoned by Strabo as part of
Kabalis, but the northern part including the territory of Themisonion
was assigned by him, p. 576, to Phrygia. The tribe Erizenoi, the
original population of the Kazanes valley, however, seems to have
been reckoned by Strabo as Pisidian2, on which were superinduced
1 The Austrian Expedition and Prof. on the Phrygian frontier; but Strabo,
Kiepert give the name as Peder-Bey who considered that the valley of Tabai
(Peder means/atfier); Beder is an Arabic contained a mixed Phrygian and Pisi-
name (compare Bedr-ed-din). dian population, cannot have considered
2 Ptolemy puts the Erizenoi in Caria the Erizenoi as Carians. He actually