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- obsoleteThe region of Persia just south of the Caspian Sea; Hyrcania, Mazandaran.
The King your brother is now hard at hand, Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.
c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii2 more examples
Caſpii, the chief Inhabitants of Hyrcania or Caſpia, now Diargum in Perſia, who it is ſaid uſed to ſhut up and ſtarve their Parents when they were 70 years old, becauſe they reckoned them then to be no more uſeful to the Publick.
1740, Francis Joy, The Gazetteer’s; Or, Newsman’s Interpreter, 8th edition, part 2, pageSome think that those inhospitable nations are meant, Syro-media, Caspia, Hyrcania, Iberia, and others, into which many of the Jews were brought, who sought to live elsewhere than at Babylon; […]
1810, John Gill, An Exposition of the Prophets of the Old Testament, volume 2, page 101
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Caspia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Caspia
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