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² Berthelot, p. 279, would derive the name Goruaia not from the river but from Ptolemy’s town Gorya, the Gorys of Strabo xv, 697, which he places on the Kunar. The derivation seems probable; but Strabo is here most confused and it is impossible to be sure that his ‘Choaspes’ on which Gorys stands means the Kunar; most probably it is meant for the united Panjshir-Ghorband river (p. 97 n. 2). But Goruaia certainly extended to the Kunar, for Ptolemy makes it include Nagara-Dionysopolis, the site of which has been identified (near Jalalabad).