. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . has been identified with that of thePatischorians mentioned by Strabo in Persia proper, who would have livedfurther north, not far from Demavend ; Sachau calls attention to the existenceof a mountain chain Patashwar-gar or Padishwar-gir, in front of Choar^nS,and he places the country of Patusharra between Demavend and the desert. ^ Partakka and Partukka seem to be two different adaptations of thename Paraituka, the Parsetaken^ of the Greek geographers; Tiele thinks ofParthyen^. I think that these two names designate the northern distr

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. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . has been identified with that of thePatischorians mentioned by Strabo in Persia proper, who would have livedfurther north, not far from Demavend ; Sachau calls attention to the existenceof a mountain chain Patashwar-gar or Padishwar-gir, in front of Choar^nS,and he places the country of Patusharra between Demavend and the desert. ^ Partakka and Partukka seem to be two different adaptations of thename Paraituka, the Parsetaken^ of the Greek geographers; Tiele thinks ofParthyen^. I think that these two names designate the northern districtsof ParsetakSn^, the present Ashnakhor or the country near to it. THE TRIPLE RAMPARTS OP KHARKHAR 131 of their paying an annual tribute, and he put them underthe protection of the Assyrian governors who were nearestto their territory. Kharkhar, securely entrenched behindits triple ramparts, assumed the position of capital to theseIranian marches. It is difficult to determine the precise dates of thesevarious events; we learn merely that they took place.

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