Corduene

Corduene (Armenian: Կորճայք, also known as Gorduene, Cordyene, Cardyene, Carduene, Gordyene, Gordyaea, Korduene, Korchayk, Gordian, Hebrew:קרטיגיני ) was an ancient region located in northern Mesopotamia and modern day Kurdish inhabited south east Turkey. Although it was independent for a short time, for most of the time it was ruled by others and was at times a province of Greater Armenia and later of the Roman Empire. It was referred to by the Greeks as Karduchia and by both the Greeks and Romans as Corduene.