CARDUCHI (the modern Kurds), ancient warlike mountain tribes, who inhabited the hill country lying between Mesopotamia and the great table-land of Persia. They uniformly baffled all the attempts made at different times by the Persian monarchs to subdue them. The ten thousand on their retreat after the battle of Cunaxa suffered severely as they passed through the difficult country of
the Carduchi. A complete account of their modes of life, habits, and customs, will be found in the opening chapters of the fourth book of Xenophon's Anabasis, in which their skill in archery is thought worthy of special notice.