(anc. geogr.), a country of the farther Asia, lying to the south-east of the Maeotis Hyrcanum or Caspium; with Media on the west, Parthia on the south, and Margiana on the west. Famous for its tygers (Virgil); for its vines, figs, and olives, (Strabo).

(anc. geogr.); 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 Syrinx of Polybius, the Zeudracarta of Arrian, and the Asa of Idfris Characenus.—A third, a strong place of Judea, built by Hyrcanus.