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Strabon, Geographia

Passus 12, 3, 37 [b] (C 560): Καρανῖτις [ethnic]

Date: AD 15 - 23 about?
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Status: adjective
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Details: '... a portion to Ateporix, a dynast of the family of tetrarchs of Galatia; but now that Ateporix has died, this portion, which is not large, is subject to the Romans, being called a province (eparchia) (and this litte state is a political organisation of itself, the people having incorporated Karana into it, from which fact its country (chora) is called Karanitis), ...'
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