Epithet of Jews, after Hyrcania on the Caspian Sea, introduced by repatriates from the diaspora there.
[1] Around 200 BC
Son of the Ptolemaic general tax leaseholder of Coile Syria and Phoenicia, Josephus, from the Jewish magnate family of the Tobiads. After the conquest of Ptolemaic Syria by Antiochus [5] III in the year 200 BC he retreated to Trans-Jordan, where h…