35) and Dio Cassius (37.3) as crossed by Pompey, on his expedition into the Caucasian regions.
Its course was east of the Cambyses (likely the modern Iori); and it seems to be the same as the "Alazonius" or "Alazon" of Strabo and Pliny which fell into the Cambyses just above its confluence with the Cyrus River (modern-day Kura River).
The Battle of the Abas was fought on a plain adjacent to the river in 65 BCE.
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