Caspii Montes

CA´SPII MONTES (Κάσπια ὄρη), a western portion of the great chain of the Orontes and Coronus (Demawend), which extended along the SE. shores of the Caspian Sea, on the borders of Media, Hyrcania, and Parthia, about 40 miles N. of the modern town of Teheran. They doubtless derived their name from one of the tribes who lived on the borders of that sea. [CASPII]

(τὸ Κάσπιον ὄρος). The modern Elburz Mountains; a name applied generally to the whole range of mountains which surround the Caspian Sea on the south and southwest, at the distance of from fifteen to thirty miles from its shore, and more especially to that part of this range south of the Caspian, in which was the pass called Caspiae Pylae (q.v.).