HYRCANIA (anc. geog.); a town of Lydia, in the campus Hyrcanus, near Thyatira; so called from colonists brought from Hyrcania, a country lying to the south of the Caspian sea. The people called Hyrcani Macedones, because a mixed people (Pliny).—Another Hyrcania, the metropolis of the country called Hyrcania. Thought to be the Tape of Strabo, the Syrix of Polybius, the Zendrarcata of Arrian, and the Asae of Isidors Characenus.—A third, a strong place of Judea, built by Hyrcanus.