Sittace or Sittake or Sittakê (Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

: , Ptol.

Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...

 vi. 1. § 6; Akkadian

Akkadian language

Akkadian is an extinct Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate...

 Sattagū), was an ancient city, the capital of ancient Sittacene

Sittacene

Sittacene was an ancient region of Babylonia and Assyria situated about the main city of Sittace. Pliny in his Natural History, Book 6, §§ 205-206, places Sittacene between Chalonitis, Persis and Mesene and also between Arbelitis and Palestine . Besides Sittace, Sabata, and Antiochia are...

, in Assyria

Assyria

Assyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur...

, at the southern end of this province, on the road between Artemita

Artemita

Artemita or Artemita in Apolloniatis was a city in what is now eastern Iraq that flourished under the Parthian Empire.Though its exact location is not known, it was located on the major route to Khorasan, between Seleucia and the Zagros Mountains...

 and Susa

Susa

Susa was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian and Parthian empires of Iran. It is located in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris River, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers....

. (Strabo

Strabo

Strabo, also written Strabon was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher.-Life:Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus , a city which he said was situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black Sea...

 xvi. p. 744.) It is called Sitta by Diodorus (xvii. 110). William Smith

William Smith (lexicographer)

Sir William Smith Kt. was a noted English lexicographer.-Early life:Born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents, he was originally destined for a theological career, but instead was articled to a solicitor. In his spare time he taught himself classics, and when he entered University College...

 believed that Diodorus's Sambana

Sambana

Sambana, is an ancient town mentioned by Diodorus Siculus . William Smith identifies it as the same as the Sabata mentioned by Pliny . It was situated about two days' journey north of Sittace and east of Artemita, in Assyria....

 also referred to Sittace.

The origin of the city's name may be found in Babylon

Babylon

Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...

ian tablets referring to the polity "URU.Sattagû" which may be a translation or approximation of "people of Sattagydia

Sattagydia

Sattagydia was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire, situated east of the Kirthar Mountains on the Indus River, corresponding approximately to southern Indoscythia and to the current Sindh region of Pakistan...

", a Persian satrapy. http://www.livius.org/sao-sd/sattagydia/sattagydia.html

The district of Sittacene appears to have been called in later times "Apolloniatis" (Strab. xi. p. 524).