Sideris
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Sideris was a river around Caspian Sea mentioned by Pliny[1].
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Sidar = Sideris (Pliny.vi.18)
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions Nations situated around the Hyrcanian Sea....We then come to the nations of the Tapyri,3 the Anariaci, the Staures, and the Hyrcani, past whose shores and beyond the river Sideris4 the Caspian begins to take the name of the Hyrcanian Sea: on this side of that stream are also the rivers Maxeras and Strato: all of them take their rise in the Caucasian chain.
3 According to Ansart, the district now known as Tabaristan, or Mazanderan, derives the first of those names from the Tapyri.
4 D'Anville remarks that this river still retains its "starry" name, being the modern Aster or Ester, on which Asterabad is situate.