Cyropolis (, ''Kyroúpolis'') or Cyreschata (), both meaning "City of Cyrus", was a town in

Media Atropatene Atropatene (; ; ), also known as Media Atropatene, was an ancient Iranian kingdom established in by the Persian satrap Atropates (). The kingdom, centered in present-day Azerbaijan region in northwestern Iran, was ruled by Atropates' descenda ...

, between the rivers

Cyrus Cyrus () is a Persian-language masculine given name. It is historically best known as the name of several List of monarchs of Iran, Persian kings, most notably including Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BC. It remains wid ...

and

Amardus Amardus or Mardus () was a river of Media, mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus in his confused description of the Persian provinces and by Ptolemy places it in Media, and if we take his numbers as correct, its source is in the Zagrus. The river flo ...

. The town is reported by

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

and

Ammianus Marcellinus Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicized as Ammian ( Greek: Αμμιανός Μαρκελλίνος; born , died 400), was a Greek and Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquit ...

Claudius Salmasius Claude Saumaise (15 April 1588 – 3 September 1653), also known by the Latin name Claudius Salmasius, was a French classical scholar. Life Salmasius was born at Semur-en-Auxois in Burgundy (region), Burgundy. When Salmasius was sixteen, his fath ...

(''in Solin.'' p. 840) has denied the separate existence of this town and contended that it is the same as the

Cyropolis Cyreschata (Old Persian: ), better known by its Latin name Cyropolis ( or , ), both meaning "City of Cyrus", was an ancient city founded by Cyrus the Great to mark the northeastern border of his Achaemenid Empire. Location The actual locatio ...

on the

Jaxartes The Syr Darya ( ),; ; ; ; ; /. historically known as the Jaxartes ( , ), is a river in Central Asia. The name, which is Persian, literally means ''Syr Sea'' or ''Syr River''. It originates in the Tian Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan and eastern ...

, asserting that the authority of

Ammianus Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicized as Ammian (Greek: Αμμιανός Μαρκελλίνος; born , died 400), was a Greek and Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity ( ...

is of no weight as he generally follows

. There seems to

William Sandys Wright Vaux William Sandys Wright Vaux FRS (28 February 1818 – 21 June 1885), was a celebrated English antiquary and numismatist of the 19th century. Biography Vaux was born in 1818 in Oxford. He was the only son of William Vaux (d. 1844), prebendary ...

, a classicist of the 19th century, no great force in this argument, and if there were any district in which one might naturally expect to find a city called after

, it would surely be that with which he was immediately connected during his whole life.

References

Former populated places in Iran Cyrus the Great Cadusii Atropatene {{iran-geo-stub