page_title: Matiene
section_title: Etymology
hierarchical_section_title: Matiene / Etymology
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Carte generale de l'Asie-Mineure, de l'Armenie, de la Syrie, de la Mesopotamie, du Caucase &amp;a. par A. Brue, Geographe du Roi. (with) Etat de l'Asie avant Cyrus et limites de l'Empire des Perses a la mort de ce Prince (560 et 579 av. J.C.). (with) Marche de Cyrus le Jeune et des Grecs ses allies, retraite des dix-mille Grecs sous Xenophon. (with) Colonies de Pheniciens de 20e . au 5e. siecles avant J.C. Revue, completee et augmentee de cartes particulieres par Ch. Picquet , Geographe du Roi et de Mgr. le Duc d'Orleans. Paris, 1839. Chez Chles. Picquet, Quai Conti No. 17, pres du Pont des Arts.
context_page_description: Matiene was the name of a kingdom in northwestern Iran on the lands of the earlier kingdom of the Mannae. Ancient historians including Strabo, Ptolemy, Herodotus, Polybius, and Pliny mention names such as Mantiane, Martiane, Matiana, Matiani, Matiene, Martuni to designate a region located to the northwest of Media."
context_section_description: The name Matiene may be related to Mitanni, the name of a state some 800 years earlier, which was founded by an Indo-Aryan ruling class governing the Hurrian population.  The name Matiene was applied also to the neighboring Lake Matianus (Lake Urmia) located immediately to the east of the Matieni people.  The Iranian root "Mati-" meaning "to tower, to stand out" (from the same Indo-European root that gives us the word "mountain") might explain the name.
caption: Location of Matiene
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