A member of an ancient Indo-European people who established an empire in Media, south-west of the Caspian Sea and including most of Persia (now…

= Parthian, n. 1.

A native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage in North Africa; a Carthaginian.

A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Nineveh, capital of Assyria from the reign of Sennacherib (704–681 b.c.) until its sack in 612 b.c.

An inhabitant or native of Troy. (In quot. 1910 used allusively.)

Usually with capital initial. An inhabitant of the city of Sodom.

A native or inhabitant of Phoenicia, an ancient country consisting, in the 1st millennium b.c., of a narrow strip of land on the coast of Syria…

A member of an ancient people inhabiting the kingdom of Macedonia (see Macedon, n.). Now historical.

A native or inhabitant of Parthia, a region of the Achaemenian empire and later a kingdom in what is now Iran.

A member of the people (to which Alexander the Great belonged) that inhabited ancient Macedonia; a Macedonian. (Now only in sense A. 2b.)

Ancient History. A native or inhabitant of Phrygia, an ancient region of west central Asia Minor, to the south of Bithynia.

A native or inhabitant of the ancient Greek city of Mycenae. In later use also: a member of a Bronze Age culture centred on Mycenae (see note at…

A native or inhabitant of Tyre.

A native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Sidon, a city in the south of present-day Lebanon.

A native or inhabitant of ancient Galatia.

A native or inhabitant of ancient Canaan, esp. one of the original inhabitants of the land of Canaan prior to the Israelite conquest, whom (after…

A native or inhabitant of ancient Canaan; esp. one of the original inhabitants of the land of Canaan prior to the Israelite conquest; = Canaanite, n.1…

A native or inhabitant of ancient Miletus, a city in Asia Minor.

A native of this province.

A native or inhabitant of Syrophœnicia, a Roman province of Western Asia, including Phœnicia and the territories of Damascus and Palmyra. Also adj.…

A native or inhabitant of Molossia in ancient Epirus.

A native or inhabitant of Hyrcania, an ancient region on the Caspian Sea.

A native or inhabitant of Palmyra in ancient Syria.

A native or inhabitant of Pergamum. Cf. Pergamene, n.

= Smyrnaean, n. adj.

A native or inhabitant of the ancient region of Mysia, on the Mediterranean coast south of the Sea of Marmara (formerly between Lydia and Bithynia…

A native or inhabitant of Carthage. Cf. Punic, n. adj.

= Punic, n. 1.

A native or inhabitant of ancient Lycia in south-west Asia Minor.

An inhabitant or native of (ancient) Smyrna. (Cf. Smyrniote, n.)

A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Phocaea, the northernmost of the Ionian Greek settlements on the western coast of Asia Minor…

plural. Galatians.

An inhabitant of ancient Iberia in Asia.

A native or inhabitant of Maʿīn, an ancient kingdom of southern Arabia.

A native or inhabitant of Susiana or its capital, Susa.

An inhabitant of Cappadocia.

A native or inhabitant of Caria, an ancient province of Asia Minor; the language of Caria.

A native or inhabitant of Paphlagonia.

An inhabitant of the ancient Syrian city of Hamath; also, a script found in the Taurus mountains, now called ‘Hittite’. Also attributive.

A native or inhabitant of Pergamum. Cf. Pergamenian, n.

= Byzantine, adj. n.

A native or inhabitant of Chalcis, the chief city of Eubœa.

Ancient History. A native or inhabitant of Philadelphia in Asia Minor.

Of or pertaining to (or an inhabitant of) Xanthus, an ancient town in Asia Minor; spec. of a collection of marbles discovered near it.

A native or inhabitant of Palmyra in ancient Syria; (also) the Aramaic language and script used in Palmyra.

A native or inhabitant of Isauria, an ancient country in Asia Minor, between Cilicia and Phrygia; spec. applied to a line of emperors of the…

A Trojan.

An inhabitant of Byzantium.

A native of Bœotia.

Of or pertaining to any of the successive towns of Ilium in the Trojan Plain; also as n., an inhabitant of Ilium.

combining form of Libyan, adj. n. = Libyan and (something else), as Libyo-Phœnician n. also Libyphœnician Archaeology a Phœnician living in Libya, a…

Also Khaldaei, Khaldean. Originally the divine offspring of Khaldi; more usually, a native or inhabitant of the ancient Armenian kingdom of Urartu.

A member of the Mitanni.

A native or inhabitant of Iconium.

With capital initial. A native or inhabitant of Petra, esp. in antiquity.

A native or inhabitant of Lycaonia.