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to next section]  (Vol. V) Strabo  p295 Book XI, Chapter 12  1
(520) Since the northern parts of Asia are formed by the Taurus,
— I mean the parts which are also called "Cis‑Tauran" Asia,1
I have chosen to describe these first. These include all or most
of the regions in the mountains themselves. All that lie farther
east than the Caspian Gates admit of a simpler description
because of the wildness of their inhabitants; and it would not
make much difference whether they were named as belonging to
this "clima"2 or that, whereas all that lie to the west afford
abundant matter for descrip