MATIE´NI MONTES(τὰ Ματιηνὰ ὄρη, Hdt. 1.189, 202, 5.52), the ridge of mountains which forms the back-bone or centre of Matiana, doubtless part of the mountain range of Kurdistáan, in the neighbourhood of Ván. Herodotus makes them the watershed from which flowed the Gyndes and the Araxes, which is giving them too extended a range from N. to S. (1.189, 202).
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