Zahaspa

A big trade city on the mouth River Oxus (modern Amu Darya) on the brink of the Caspian Sea. ## See maps, Oxus flows into old Caspian Sea.

Sources from old books

1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn.

Zabaspia, of less antiquity, but of greater estimation at the present time. Situate on the mouth of the River Oxus (now called Abias) on the brink of the Caspian, and much frequented by the Merchants of forein Countreys, chiefly from India, and Cathay.

1676. A most exact and accurate map of the whole world by Donald Lupton.

Zabaspia, an eminent town, by reason the Inhabitants thereabouts are civil and industrious, good mechanicks, well skilled in manufactories, and very seldom without a great confluence of Merchants, trading on the River Daix, and the mouth of the Oxus.

1698. Lexicon universale by Johann Jacobi Hofmann.

urbs Zagataiae, ad ostia Oxi, in mare Caspium; in limite Persiae.