Cyrrhestica

Cyrrhestica (Greek: Κυρρηστική)[1] is a district of Greater Syria which appears to have owed its name to the hellenistic era of the country.

[2] This fertile, well-watered, and thickly peopled district[3] occupied the right bank of the Euphrates, where the river inclines rather eastward of south.

It was the scene of the campaign in which Ventidius defeated the Parthian Pacorus and avenged Crassus and the Roman army which had fallen at Carrhae.

The chief towns of Cyrrhestica were Hierapolis Bambyce, Zeugma, Europus, Birtha?, Beroea (modern Aleppo), Batnae, and Cyrrhus.

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