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In the Greater Bundahishn, a Middle Persian Zoroastrian scripture, the Black Sea is called . In the tenth-century Persian geography book , the Black Sea is called "Sea of the Georgians" (). "The Georgian Chronicles" use the name (Sea of Speri) after the Kartvelian tribe of Speris or Saspers. Other modern names such as and , originated in the 13th century. A 1570 map from Abraham Ortelius's labels the sea (Great Sea), compare Latin .