The Ancient Greeks called the region Kasperia which has been identified with Kaspapyros of Hecataeus of Miletus (apud Stephanus of Byzantium) and Kaspatyros of Herodotus (3.102, 4.44). Kashmir is also believed to be the country meant by Ptolemy's Kaspeiria.[13]
Cashmere is an archaic spelling of present-Kashmir, and in some countries it is still spelled this way.
In the Kashmiri language, Kashmir itself is known as Kasheer.[14]
