'Gor,' he said, 'is the name of this world. In all the languages of this planet, the word means Home Stone.' He paused, noting my lack of comprehension. 'Home Stone,' he repeated. 'Simply that. 'In peasant villages on this world,' he continued, 'each hut was originally built around a flat stone which was placed in the center of the circular dwelling. It was carved with the family sign and was called the Home Stone. It was, so to speak, a symbol of sovereignty, or territory, and each peasant, in his own hut, was a sovereign.' 'Later,' said my father, 'Home Stones were used for villages, and later still for cities. The Home Stone of a village was always placed in the market; in a city, on the top of the highest tower. The Home Stone came naturally, in time, to acquire a mystique, and something of the same hot, sweet emotions as our native peoples of Earth feel toward their flags became invested in it.' My father had risen to his feet and had begun to pace the room, and his eyes seemed strangely alive. In time I would come to understand more of what he felt. Indeed, there is a saying on Gor, a saying whose origin is lost in the past of this strange planet, that one who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved, and honor is respected in the barbaric codes of Gor.
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 26, by John Norman.

"Ar is the slave capital of known Gor. Although there are some private show and sales rooms in the House of Cernus, and private auctions and exhibitions, intended to interest prospective clients, are held, most slaves, of the House of Cernus and others, are sold in one of the five public auction houses, licensed and taxed by the Administrator of Ar. The major auction house, the Curulean, contains the great block. It is a great mark of prestige among slave girls to be selected for sale from the great block in the Curulean, and girls tend to compete viciously among themselves for this honor."
Assassins of Gor, pg. 112, by John Norman.

"Chronology in Ar is figured, happily enough, not from its Administrator Lists, but from its mythical foundings by the first man on Gor, a hero whom the Priest-Kings are said to have formed from the mud of the earth and the blood of tarns. Times is reckoned 'Constanta Ar', or 'from the founding of Ar.' The year, according to the calendar of Ar, if it is of interest, is 10,117."
Outlaw of Gor, pg. 179, by John Norman.

"I turned the bottle so that she might read the label. It was a small bottle of Boleto's Nectar of the Public Slave Gardens. Boleto is a wellknown wine- grower from the vicinity of Ar. He is famous for the production of a large number of reasonably good, medium-grade ka-la-nas. This was one of the major wines, and perhaps the best, served in Ar's public slave gardens; indeed, it had originally been for that market, hence the name. "Oh," she said. "I hope you like it," I said. "It's very nice," she said. "I'm glad you like it," I said."
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 360, by John Norman.

Argentum
"It is good for you to appear before the people," had said Ligurious, "given the trouble with Argentum." "What is the trouble with Argentum?" I had asked."
Kajira of Gor, by John Norman.

"Skirmishes have taken place near there," be said. "Look," he said, pointing, "there is the library of Antisthenes."
Kajira of Gor, by John Norman.

Ar's Station
"I had gone from Lara to White Water using the barge canal, to circumvent the rapids, and fron thence to Tancred's Lansing. I had later voyaged down river to Iskander, Forestport, and Ar's Station. Ar's Station, incidentally, did not exist at the time of the massing of the horde of Pa-Kur."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 62, by John Norman.

"It was established four years afterward, as an outpost and trading station on the south bank of the Vosk."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 63, by John Norman.

"Toward Ar's Station?" I speculated. This was Ar's stronghold on the Vosk. It was situated on the southern bank, east of Jort's Ferry and west of Forest Port, both on the northern bank."
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 164, by John Norman.

Bazi
"The merchant caste, which is international, so to speak, in its organization, arranges and conducts the four great fairs which occur annually in the vicinity of the Sordor mountains. The merchant caste, Sadaraintains certain free ports on certain islands and on the coasts of Thassa, such as Teleus and Bazi. Space in a "freee keep" is rented on a commercial basis, regardless of municipal affiliation. In a banner keep, or one maintained by a givn city, prefernce, if not exclusive givents, arepreference to the merchants and citizens of the city under whose banner the keep is established and administered."
Slave Girl of Gor, pg. 255, by John Norman.

"Tea is extremely important to the nomads. It is served hot and heavily sugared. It gives them strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools the, by making them sweat as well as stimulating them. It is drunk three small cups at a time, carefully measured."
Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 38, by John Norman.

Besnit
"Besnit, Esalinus or Harfax," suggested Boots. I shrugged. "Perhaps," I said. These towns were all within a hundred pasangs of our present location. Such women could be disposed of almost anywhere, of course. Slave markets, like slaves, are common on Gor. Given the large number of slaves on Gor it is only natural that there should be an abundance of outlets for their handling and processing."
Players of Gor, pg. 194, by John Norman.

"These are generally both wholesalers and retailers, but primarily wholesalers, for retailers are usually indigenous to given cities, or, often, also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many, for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and others."
Dancer of Gor, pg. 102, by John Norman.

Brundisium
She stood not more than a hundred yards from the gate of Tesius, in the city of Samnium, some two hundred pasangs east and a bit south of Brundisium, both cities continental allies of the island ubarate of Cos."
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 8, by John Norman.

Esalinus
"Besnit, Esalinus or Harfax," suggested Boots. I shrugged. "Perhaps," I said. These towns were all within a hundred pasangs of our present location. Such women could be disposed of almost anywhere, of course. Slave markets, like slaves, are common on Gor. Given the large number of slaves on Gor it is only natural that there should be an abundance of outlets for their handling and processing."
Players of Gor, pg. 194, by John Norman.

Corcyrus
"In the city of Corcyrus," she said. I had never heard of this city. I did not even know what country it was in. I did not even know in what continent it might be... "Corcyrus," said the girl, "is south of the Vosk. It is. southwest of the city of Ar. It lies to the east and somewhat north of Argenturn."
Kajira of Gor, by John Norman.

Fina
"Women are almost always auctioned naked. That way a man can see what he is buying. I turned away from the block in the barnlike structure in Fina, one of the many towns on the Vosk. I heard the auctioneer's calls fading behind me. I thought he wold get a good price for the pretty brunette."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 60, by John Norman.

Forestport
I had gone from Lara to White Water using the barge canal, to circumvent the rapids, and fron thence to Tancred's Lansing. I had later voyaged down river to Iskander, Forestport, and Ar's Station. Ar's Station, incidentally, did not exist at the time of the massing of the horde of Pa-Kur."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 62, by John Norman.

Fort Hastings
"The next town northward is Fort Haskins," I said. This lay at the foot of the Boswell Pass. Originally it had been a trading post, maintained by the Haskins Company, a company of Merchants, primarily at Thentis. A military outpost, flying the banners of Thentis, garrisoned by mercenaries, was later established at the same point. The military and strategic importance of controlling the eastern termination of the Boswell Pass was clear. It was at this time that the place came to be known as Fort Haskins. A fort remains at this point but the name, generally, is now given to the town which grew up in the vicinity of the fort, primarily to the west and south."
Savages of Gor, pg. 76, by John Norman.

Hammerfest
"I had stopped also at Hammerfest and Ragnar's Hamlet, the latter actually, now, a good-sized town. Its growth might be contrasted with that of Tetrapoli, much further west on the river. Ragnar's Hamlet began as a small village and, from this central nucleus, expanded."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 63, by John Norman.

Harfax
"Besnit, Esalinus or Harfax," suggested Boots. I shrugged. "Perhaps," I said. These towns were all within a hundred pasangs of our present location. Such women could be disposed of almost anywhere, of course. Slave markets, like slaves, are common on Gor. Given the large number of slaves on Gor it is only natural that there should be an abundance of outlets for their handling and processing."
Players of Gor, pg. 194, by John Norman.

Hochburg
"So is Dietrich of Tarnburg, of the high city of Tarnburg, some two hundred pasangs to the north and west of Hochburg, both substantially mountain fortresses, both in the more southern and civilized ranges of the Voltai, was well-known to the warriors of Gor. ."
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 31, by John Norman.

Iskander
I had gone from Lara to White Water using the barge canal, to circumvent the rapids, and fron thence to Tancred's Lansing. I had later voyaged down river to Iskander, Forestport, and Ar's Station. Ar's Station, incidentally, did not exist at the time of the massing of the horde of Pa-Kur."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 62, by John Norman.

Jasmine
West of Ar's Station on the river I had visited Jort's Ferry, Point Alfred, Jasmine, Siba, Sais, and Sulport. I had stopped also at Hammerfest and Ragnar's Hamlet, the latter actually, now, a good-sized town."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 63, by John Norman.

Jort's Ferry
West of Ar's Station on the river I had visited Jort's Ferry, Point Alfred, Jasmine, Siba, Sais, and Sulport. I had stopped also at Hammerfest and Ragnar's Hamlet, the latter actually, now, a good-sized town."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 63, by John Norman.

Kailiauk
'"Ali," I said. I should have guessed that. Kailiauk is the easternmost town at the foot of the Thentis mountains. It lies almost at the edge of the Ihanke, or Boundary. From its outskirts one can see the markers, the feathers on their tall wands, which mark the beginning of the country of the red savages.'
Savages of Gor, pg. 77, by John Norman.

Kasra
She had once been the Tatrix of Corcyrus. She now belonged to Hassan of Kasra, often called Hassan, the Slave Hunter. I had once been in Kasra. It is a river port on the Lower Fayeen. It is important in the Tahari salt trade. "
Players of Gor, pg. 30, by John Norman.

Kassau
"Kassau is a town of wood, and the temple is the greatest building in the town, it towers far above the squalid huts, and stabler homes of merchants, which crowd about it. Too, the town is surrounded by a wall, with two gates, one large, facing the inlet, leading in from Thassa, the other small, leading to the forest behind the town. The wall is of sharpened logs, and is defended by a catwalk. The main business of Kassau is trade, lumber and fishing. The slender striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of the town, and may there, particularly in the spring and the fall, be taken in great numbers. The smell of the fish-drying sheds of Kassau carries far out to sea. The trade is largely in furs from the north, exchanged for weapons, iron bars, salt and luxury goods, such as jewelery and silk, from the south, usually brought to Kassau from Lydius by ten-oared coasting vessel. Lumber, of course, is a valuable commodity. It is generally milled and taken northward. Torvaldsland, though not treeless, is bleak. In it, fine Ka-la-na wood, for example, and supple temwood, cannot grow. These two woods are prized in the north. "
Marauders of Gor, pg. 27, by John Norman.

Ko-ro-ba
'"You have mastered a tarn, a war tarn." In your veins must flow the blood of your father, once Ubar, War Chieftain, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, the City of Cylinders. I was surprised, for this was the first time I had known that my father had been a War Chieftain of the city, or that he was even now its suprene civil official, or, for that matter that the city was named Ko-ro-ba, a now archaic expression for a village market. Goreans have a habit of not revealing names easily."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 58, by John Norman.

Lara
"Lara!" she cried. "Lara!" This was a town in the Salerian Confederation at the confluence of Vosk and Olni."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 15, by John Norman.

Laura
"He was bound, traveling over the hills and meadowlands east and north of Ko-ro-ba, for the city of Laura, which lies on the banks of the Laurius river, some two hundred pasangs inland from the coast of the sea, called Thassa. Laura is a small trading city, a river port, whose buildings are largely of wood, consisting mostly it seems of warehouses and taverns. It is a clearing house for many goods, wood, salt, fish, stone, fur and slaves. At the mouth of the Laurius, where it empties into Thassa, is found the free port of Lydius, administered by the merchants, an important Gorean caste."
Captive of Gor, pg. 59, by John Norman.

Lydius
"Lydius is a bustling, populous trade center located at the estuary of the Laurius River. Many cities maintain warehouses and small communities in Lydius. Many goods, in particular wood, wood products, and hide, make their way westward on the Laurius, eventually landing at Lydius, later to be embarked to the south on the ships of various cities, lines and associations."
Players of Gor, pg. 12, by John Norman.

Market of Semris
"Feiqa shrunk back, her hand inadvertently going to her collar. Too, her thigh now wore a brand , the common Kajira mark, high on her left thigh, just under the hip. I had had it put on her two days after leaving the vicinity of Samnium, at the town of Market of Semris, well known for its sales of tarsks."
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 19, by John Norman.

"We were not in Samnium, but in Market of Semris. This is a much smaller town, south, and somewhat to the east, of Samnium. It is best known, interestingly enough, ironically enough, as an important livestock market. In particular, it is famed for its sales of tarsks. Too, of course, there are markets here for slaves."
Dancer of Gor, pg. 106, by John Norman.

Point Alfred
"West of Ar's Station on the river I had visited Jort's Ferry, Point Alfred, Jasmine, Siba, Sais, and Sulport. I had stopped also at Hammerfest and Ragnar's Hamlet, the latter actually, now, a good-sized town."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 63, by John Norman.

Port Cos
"The next towns west on the river were Victoria and Tafa. West of Tafa was Por Cos, which had been founded by settlers from Cos over a century ago. The major towns west of Por Cos, discounting minor towns were Tetrapoli, Ven and Turmus. Ven at the junction of the Ta-Thassa Cartius and the Vosk, and Turmus, at the eastern end of the Vosk's great delta, the last town on the river itself."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 64, by John Norman.

Port Kar
"At the second Ahn, long before dawn, the herald of Samos had come to the lake like courtyard of my holding in many-canalled Port Kar, that place of many ships, scourge of Thassa, that dark jewel in her gleaming green waters."
Savages of Gor, pg. 7, by John Norman.
"Port Kar, crowded, squalid, malignant, is sometimes referred to as the Tarn of the Sea. Her name is a synonym in Gorean for cruelty and piracy. The fleets of tarn ships of Port Kar are the scourge of Thassa, beautiful, lateen-rigged galleys that ply the trade of plunder and enslavement from the Ta-Thassa Mountains of the southern hemisphere of Gor to the ice lakes of the North; and westward even beyond the terraced island of Cos and the rocky Tyros, with its labyrinths of vart caves."
Raiders of Gor, pg. 6, by John Norman.

Port Olni
"the lands over which the confederation professes to maintain a hegemony. The meadow of Salerius, thus, lies on the northern bank of the Olni, between Port Olni and Vonda; the area called Saleria, on the other hand, is, in effect, the lands controlled by the confederation."
FIghgting Slave of Gor, pg. 171, by John Norman.

Ragnar's Hamlet
"I had stopped also at Hammerfest and Ragnar's Hamlet, the latter actually, now, a good-sized town. Its growth might be contrasted with that of Tetrapoli, much further west on the river. Ragnar's Hamlet began as a small village and, from this central nucleus, expanded."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 63, by John Norman.

Sais
West of Ar's Station on the river I had visited Jort's Ferry, Point Alfred, Jasmine, Siba, Sais, and Sulport. I had stopped also at Hammerfest and Ragnar's Hamlet, the latter actually, now, a good-sized town."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 63, by John Norman.

Samnium
"She stood not more than a hundred yards from the gate of Tesius, in the city of Samnium, some two hundred pasangs east and a bit south of Brundisium, both cities continental allies of the island ubarate of Cos."
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 8, by John Norman.

"This word, incidentally, is, in effect, the same word as 'Semnium', although in the western coastal dialects it is commonly pronounced as I have given the spelling here. Its original meaning is apparently "Meeting Place," and its application to a building, or a hall for the meeting of councils, is, it seems, a later development."
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 201, by John Norman.

Schendi
'Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vegetables, chains, craft tools, agricultural implements, such as hoe heads and metal flail blades, wines and Pagas, colorful birds and slaves. Schendi's most significant exports are doubtless spice and hides, with kailiauk horn and horn products also being of great importance. One of her most delicious exports is palm wine. One of her most famous and precious, exports are the small carved sapphires of Schendi. These are generally a deep blue, but some are purple and others, interestingly, white or yellow. They are usually carved in the shape of tiny panthers, but sometimes other animals are found as well, usually small animals or birds. Sometimes however the stone is carved to resemble a tiny kailiauk or kailiauk head. Slaves, interestingly, do not count as one of the major products in Schendi, in spite of the fact that the port is the headquarters of the League of Black Slavers. The black slavers usually sell their catches nearer the markets, both to the north and south. One of the major markets, to which they generally arrange for the shipment of girls overland, is the Sardar Fairs, in particular that of En'Kara, which is the most extensive and finest. This is not to say of course that Schendi does not have excellent slave markets. It is a major Gorean port. The population of Schendi is probably about a million people. The great majority of these are black. Individuals of all races, however, Schendi being a cosmopolitan port, frequent the city.'
Explorer of Gor, pg. 115, by John Norman.

Siba
West of Ar's Station on the river I had visited Jort's Ferry, Point Alfred, Jasmine, Siba, Sais, and Sulport. I had stopped also at Hammerfest and Ragnar's Hamlet, the latter actually, now, a good-sized town."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 63, by John Norman.

Sulport
West of Ar's Station on the river I had visited Jort's Ferry, Point Alfred, Jasmine, Siba, Sais, and Sulport. I had stopped also at Hammerfest and Ragnar's Hamlet, the latter actually, now, a good-sized town."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 63, by John Norman.

Tancred's Landing
"It lay well within the striking distance of a tarn cavalry, such as that which had been employed so devastatingly on the fields and hills south of Vonda. Several ships coming and going, made their trips between Lara and the nearer downriver towns, such as White Water and Tancred's Landing"
Rogue of Gor, pg. 44, by John Norman.

Tarnburg
"So is Dietrich of Tarnburg, of the high city of Tarnburg, some two hundred pasangs to the north and west of Hochburg, both substantially mountain fortresses, both in the more southern and civilized ranges of the Voltai, was well-known to the warriors of Gor. ."
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 31, by John Norman.

Tefa
"The next towns west on the river were Victoria and Tafa. West of Tafa was Por Cos, which had been founded by settlers from Cos over a century ago. The major towns west of Por Cos, discounting minor towns were Tetrapoli, Ven and Turmus. Ven at the junction of the Ta-Thassa Cartius and the Vosk, and Turmus, at the eastern end of the Vosk's great delta, the last town on the river itself."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 64, by John Norman.

Tetrapoli
"Tetrapoli, on the other hand, began as four separate towns, Ri, Teibar, Heiban and Azdal, as legend has it founded by four brothers. These towns grew together along the river and were eventaully consolidated as a polity. The four districts of the city, as might be supposed, retain the names of the original towns. The expression 'Tetrapoli" in Gorean, incidentally, means "Four Cities" or " Four Towns."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 63, by John Norman.

Tharna
"There were many things supposedly strange about Tharna, among them that she was reportedly ruled by a queen, or Tatrix, and, reasonably enough in the circumstances, that the position of women in that city, in contrast with most Gorean custom, was one of privilege and opportunity."
Outlaw of Gor, pg. 49, by John Norman.

Thentis
"I shuddered. The artist, doubtless, had been slain, his body left stripped and mutilated in the customary manner of the red savages. The object, then, through trade channels, would have come, I supposed, to one of the high cities, perhaps Thentis, the nearest of the large cities to the Barrens."
Savages of Gor, pg. 52, by John Norman.

"The older Tarl had told me that Thentis is a city known for its tarn flocks and remote in the mountains from which the city takes it's name."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 67, by John Norman.

'I grinned, and washed down the eggs with a swig of hot black wine, prepared from the beans grown upon the slopes of the Thentis mountains. This black wine is quite expensive. Men have been slain on Gor for attempting to smuggle the beans out of the Thentian territories.'
Beasts of Gor, pg. 21, by John Norman.

Ti
"Ti was the largest and most populous city of the Salerian Confederation. It had, to date, refused to involve itself in the machinations of Vonda and Cos. "Surely it will be only a matter of time," I said."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 24, by John Norman.

Torcadino
'Torcadino had been sworn to the cause of Ar. She had, it seemed, for whatever reason, presumably opportunism or greed, betrayed the pledge of her Home Stone."
Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 141, by John Norman.

Tor
"Tor, lying at the northwest corner of the Tahari, is the principal supplying point for the scattered oasis communities of that dry vastness, almost a continent of rock, and heat, and wind and sand. These communities, sometimes quite large, numbering in hundreds, sometimes thousands of citizens depending on the water available, are often hundreds of pasangs apart. They depend on caravans, usually from Tor, sometimes from Kasra, sometimes even from far Turia, to supply many of their needs."
Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 36, by John Norman.

Treve
"Treve was a warlike city somewhere in the trackless magnificence of the Voltai Range. I had never been there but I knew her reputation. Her warriors were said to be fierce and brave, her women proud and beautiful. Her tarnsmen were ranked with those of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, and Ko-ro-ba, even great Ar itself."
Nomads of Gor, pg. 60, by John Norman.

"There was said to be no access to Treve save on tarnback and this would suggest that it must be as much a mountain stronghold as a city. She was said to have no agriculture, and this may be true. Each year in the fall legions of tarnsmen from Treve were said to emerge from the Voltai like locusts and fall on the fields of one city or another, different cities in different years, harvesting what they needed and burning the rest in order that a long, relatiatory winter campaign could not be launched against them."
Priest Kings of Gor, pg. 61, by John Norman.

"It was like a small, veined, metal leaf, narrowly ovate in shape. It had a tiny hole in the wider end, in which, in a tiny loop, there was twisted a small wire. On the leaf, indented m, was a sign, and some tiny printing. "Do you know this sign?" asked the man. "No, Master," I whispered. "It is the sign of Treve," he said. "Yes, Master," I said. "Can you read this?" asked the man, pointing to the printing. "No, Master," I said. I could not read Gorean. "It is my name," said the man. "Rask." "It is with these devices," said the man, holding up the tiny leaf, with its wire, sign and printing, "that we of Treve, in our various ventures of raiding, mark our booty."
Slave GIrl of Gor, pg. 277, by John Norman.

Turia
"Turia the high-walled, the nine-gated, was the Gorean city lying in the midst of the huge prairies claimed by the Wagon Peoples. Never had it fallen."
Nomads of Gor, pg. 1, by John Norman.

Turmus
"The next towns west on the river were Victoria and Tafa. West of Tafa was Por Cos, which had been founded by settlers from Cos over a century ago. The major towns west of Por Cos, discounting minor towns were Tetrapoli, Ven and Turmus. Ven at the junction of the Ta-Thassa Cartius and the Vosk, and Turmus, at the eastern end of the Vosk's great delta, the last town on the river itself."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 64, by John Norman.

Ven
"The next towns west on the river were Victoria and Tafa. West of Tafa was Por Cos, which had been founded by settlers from Cos over a century ago. The major towns west of Por Cos, discounting minor towns were Tetrapoli, Ven and Turmus. Ven at the junction of the Ta-Thassa Cartius and the Vosk, and Turmus, at the eastern end of the Vosk's great delta, the last town on the river itself."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 64, by John Norman.

"On the southern bank, Ven," said Marcus. Turmus, which is the last major town west on the Vosk, is on the northern bank. "And what beyond Ven?" asked Aemilianus. "The delta," said Marcus."
Renegades of Gor, pg. 124, by John Norman.

Venna
"Venna is small, lovely city, largely a resort city, north of Ar, on the Viktel Aria. It is known for its tharlarion races. It is also a common locale, it and its vicinity, for villas of the rich, usually from Ar."
Dancer of Gor, pg. 319, by John Norman.

Victoria
"Are you a slaver?" he asked. "No," I said. "Then avoid Victoria," he said. "Why?" I asked. "It is a den of thieves," he said." It is little more than a market and slave town..." "That Victoria is one of the major outlets for the merchandise of river pirates." "I must go there," I said eagerly."
Rogue of Gor, pg. 65, by John Norman.

Vonda
"Vonda was one of the four cities of the Salerian Confederation. The other cities of this confederation were Ti, Port Olni and Lara. All four of these cities lie on the Olni River, which is a tributary to the Vosk."
Fighting Slave of Gor, pg. 12, by John Norman.

White Water
"Some well-known towns in the Vosk League are Victoria, Tafa and Fina. The farthest west town in the league is Turmus, at the delta. The farthest east is White Water. Some of the towns of the league are actually east of Ar's Station, such as Forest Port, Iskander, Tancred's Landing, and, of course, White Water."
Renegades of Gor, pg. 34, by John Norman.

Geographical locations:
Barrens
"They are not, truly, as barren as the name would suggest. They are barren only in contrast, say, with the northern forests or the lush land in river valleys, or the peasant fields or meadows of the southern rain belts. They are, in fact, substantially, vast tracts of rolling grasslands, lying east of the Thentis Mountains. I have suspected that they are spoken of as the Barrens not so much in an attempt to appraise them with geographical accuracy as to discourage their penetration, exploration and settlement. The name, then, is perhaps not best regarded as an item of purely scientific nomenclature but rather as something else, perhaps a warning. Also, calling the area the Barrens gives men a good excuse, if they should desire such, for not entering upon them. To be sure, the expression 'Barrens' is not altogether a misnomer. They would be, on the whole, much less arable than much of the other land of known Gor. Their climate is significantly influenced by the Thentis Mountains and the absence of large bodies of water. Prevailing winds in the northern hemisphere of Gor are from the north and West. Accordingly a significant percentage of moisture-laden air borne by westerly winds is forced by the Thentis Mountains to cooler, less-heated air strata, where it precipitates, substantially on the eastern slopes of the mountains and the fringes of the Barrens. Similarly the absence of large bodies of water in the Barrens reduces rainfall which might be connected with large-scale evaporation and subsequent precipitation of this moisture over land areas, the moisture being carried inland on what are, in effect, sea breezes, flowing into low pressure areas caused by the warmer land surfaces, a given amount of radiant energy raising the temperature of soil or rock significantly more than it would raise the temperature of an equivalent extent of water.
The absence of large bodies of water adjacent to or within the Barrens also has another significant effect on their climate. It precludes the Barrens from experiencing the moderating effects of such bodies of water on atmospheric temperatures. Areas in the vicinity of large bodies of water, because of the differential heating ratios of land and water usually have warmer winters and cooler summers than areas, which are not so situated. The Barrens, accordingly, tend to be afflicted with great extremes of temperature, often experiencing bitterly cold winters and long, hot, dry summers. "
Savages of Gor, pg. 64, by John Norman.

Boswell Pass
"The next town northward is Fort Haskins," I said. This lay at the foot of the Boswell Pass. Originally it had been a trading post, maintained by the Haskins Company, a company of Merchants, primarily at Thentis. A military outpost, flying the banners of Thentis, garrisoned by mercenaries, was later established at the same point. The military and strategic importance of controlling the eastern termination of the Boswell Pass was clear. It was at this time that the place came to be known as Fort Haskins."
Savages of Gor, pg. 76, by John Norman.

Margin of Desolution
For several days, to the sound of the caravan bells, we made our way through the Margin of Desolution, that wild, barren strip of soil with which the Empire of Ar had girded it's border."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 129, by John Norman.
"The great margin of desolation which once flanked Ar on the north, just south of the Vosk, has not been maintained. It was a long wall of wilderness, an empty, unpopulated, desertlike area without water and beneficent vegetation a thousand pasangs deep. Wells were poisoned and fields burned and salted to prevent the approach of armies from the north. Now, however, in the last years, it has become green. New wells have been dug, peasants have moved into it."
Slave Girl of Gor, pg. 145, by John Norman.

Plains of Turia
"I was afoot, on the treeless southern plains of Gor, on the Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples. The Wagon Peoples, it is said, slay strangers."
Nomads of Gor, pg. 9, by John Norman.
Polar North
"Many people do not understand the nature of the polar north. For one thing, it is very dry. Less snow falls there generally than falls in most lower latitudes. Snow that does fall, of course, is less likely to melt. Most of the land is tundra, a cool, generally level or slightly wavy, treeless plain. In the summer this tundra, covered with mosses, shrubs and lichens, because of the melted surface ice and the permafrost beneath, preventing complete drainage, is soft and spongy. In the winter, of course, and in the early spring and late fall, desolate, bleak and frozen, wind-swept, it presents the aspect of a barren, alien landscape. At such times the red hunters will dwell by the sea, in the spring and fall by its shores, and, in the winter, going out on the ice itself."
Beasts of Gor, pg. 195, by John Norman.

Tahari
"The area, in extent, east of Tor, was hundreds of pasangs in depth, and perhaps thousands in length. The Gorean expression for this area simply means the Wastes, or the Emptiness. It is a vast area, and generally rocky, and hilly, save in the dune country. It is almost constantly windblown and almost waterless. In areas it has been centuries between rains. Its oases are fed from underground rivers flowing southeastward from the Voltai slopes. The water, seeping underground, eventually, in places, due to rock formation, erupts in oasis springs, or, more usually, is reached by deep wells, some of them more than two hundred feet deep."
Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 33, by John Norman.

Torvaldsland
"The stream of Torvald is a current, as a broad river in the sea, pasangs wide, whose temperature is greater than that of the surrounding water. Without it, much of Torvaldsland, bleak as it is, would be only a frozen waste. Torvcliffs, inlets and mountains. Its arable soil is thin and found in patches. The size of the average farm is very small. Good farming is often by sea, in small boats. Without the stream of Torvald it would probably be I possible to raise cereal crops in sufficient quantity to fee even its relatively sparse population. There is often not enough food under any conditions, particularly In northern Torvaldsland, and famine is not known. In such cases men feed on bark, and lichens and seaweed. It is not strange that the young men of Torvaldsland often look to the sea, and beyond it, for their fortunes. "
Marauders of Gor, pg. 55, by John Norman.

Mountain Ranges
Hrimgar Mountains
"There are tiers of mountains, interlaced chains of them, both east of Torvaldaland and north of her. Ax Glacier lies in one valley between two of these chains. These chains, together, are sometimes called the Hrimgar Mountains, which, in Gorean, means the Barrier Mountains."
Beasts of Gor, pg. 192, by John Norman.

Sadar Mountains
'The Priest-Kings,' said my father, 'maintain the Sacred Place in the Sardar Mountains, a wild vastness into which no man penetrates. The Sacred Place, to the minds of most men here, is taboo, perilous. Surely none have returned from those mountains.' My father's eyes seemed faraway, as if focused on sights he might have preferred to forget. 'Idealists and rebels have been dashed to pieces on the frozen escarpments of those mountains. If one approaches the mountains, one must go on foot. Our beasts will not approach them. Parts of outlaws and fugitives who sought refuge in them have been found on the plains below, like scraps of meat cast from and incredible distance to the beaks and teeth of wandering scavangers."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 29, by John Norman.

"I had arrived four days before on tarnback at the black palisade that encircles the dreaded Sardar, those dark mountains, crowned with ice, consecrated to the Priest-Kings, forbidden to me, to mortals, to all creatures of flesh and blood."
Nomads of Gor, pg. 7, by John Norman.

Ta-Thassa Mountains
"Port Kar, crowded, squalid, malignant, is sometimes referred to as the Tarn of the Sea. Her name is a synonym in Gorean for cruelty and piracy. The fleets of tarn ships of Port Kar are the scourge of Thassa, beautiful, lateen-rigged galleys that ply the trade of plunder and enslavement from the Ta-Thassa Mountains of the southern hemisphere of Gor to the ice lakes of the North; and westward even beyond the terraced island of Cos and the rocky Tyros, with its labyrinths of vart caves."
Raiders of Gor, pg. 6, by John Norman.

Thentis Mountains
"The unmistakable odor of coffee, or as the Goreans express it, black wine. The beans grow largely on the slopes of the Thentis mountains. The original beans, I suppose, had been brought, like certain other Gorean products, from Earth."
Slave Girl of Gor, pg. 73, by John Norman.

Treve was a warlike city somewhere in the trackless magnificence of the Voltai Range. I had never been there but I knew her reputation. Her warriors were said to be fierce and brave, her women proud and beautiful. Her tarnsmen were ranked with those of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, and Ko-ro-ba, even great Ar itself."
Nomads of Gor, pg. 60, by John Norman.

'I grinned, and washed down the eggs with a swig of hot black wine, prepared from the beans grown upon the slopes of the Thentis mountains. This black wine is quite expensive. Men have been slain on Gor for attempting to smuggle the beans out of the Thentian territories.'
Beasts of Gor, pg. 21, by John Norman.

Voltai Mountains
"As nearly as I could determine from the map and my memory of the location of the Vosk and the direction I had been carried, I was somewhere in the Voltai Range, sometimes called the Red Mountains, south of the river and to the east of Ar."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 144, by John Norman.

Islands
Asperiche
"Asperiche, incidentally, is an exchange island, or free island, in Thassa. It is south of Teletus and Tabor. It is administered by merchants."
Players of Gor, pg. 129, by John Norman.

Anango
"Anango, like Asperiche, is an exchange, or free, island in Thassa, administered by members of the caste of merchants. It is, however, unlike Asperiche, very far away. It is far south of the equator, so far south as to almost beyond the ken of most Gorean, except as a place both remote and exotic. The jungles of the Anangoan interior serve as the setting for various fanciful tales."
Players of Gor, pg. 130, by John Norman.

Cos
"Ta grapes from the lower vineyards of the terraced island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar. I had tasted some only once before, having been introduced to them in a feast given in my honour by Lara, who was Tatrix of the city of Tharna. If they were indeed Ta grapes I supposed they must have come by galley from Cos to Port Kar, and from Port Kar to the Fair of En'Kara. Port Kar and Cos are hereditary enemies, but such traditions would not be likely to preclude some profitable smuggling."
Priest Kings of Gor, pg. 44, by John Norman.

Ianda
"She was skillful and, I suspected, from the use of the hands and beads, had been trained in Ianda, a merchant island north of Anango."
Explorer of Gor, pg. 133, by John Norman.

Skjern
"Skjern is an island in Thassa, muchly distant from Ko-ro-ba. It lies west of bleak, rocky Torvaldsland, substantially above even the vast, green belt of the northern forests."
Captive of Gor, pg. 198, by John Norman.

Tabor
"I would call myself Bosk, of Tabor. Tabor is an exchange island in Thassa, south of Teletus. It is named for the drum, which, rearing out of the sea, it resembles"
Hunters of Gor, pg. 42, by John Norman.

Teletus

Explorer of Gor, pg. 222, by John Norman.

Tyros
"Port Kar, crowded, squalid, malignant, is sometimes referred to as the Tarn of the Sea. Her name is a synonym in Gorean for cruelty and piracy. The fleets of tarn ships of Port Kar are the scourge of Thassa, beautiful, lateen-rigged galleys that ply the trade of plunder and enslavement from the Ta-Thassa Mountains of the southern hemisphere of Gor to the ice lakes of the North; and westward even beyond the terraced island of Cos and the rocky Tyros, with its labyrinths of vart caves."
Raiders of Gor, pg. 6, by John Norman.

Lakes, Rivers and Sea of Gor
Lake Ngao
'There are the rebels of the northern shore of Ngao,' said the man. 'How can they be rebels?' I asked 'Bila Huruma, in virtue of the discoveries of Shaba,' said Ayari, 'has claimed all lands in the Lake Ngao region."
Explorer of Gor, pg. 222, by John Norman.

Lake Shaba
"I thought of Shaba, and his voyages of exploration, the circumnavigation of Lake Ushindi, the discovery and circumnavigation of Lake Ngao, and the discovery and exploration of the Ua, even to the discovery of its source in the placid waters of that vast lake he had called Lake Bila Huruma. But by the wish of Bila Huruma I had changed its name to Lake Shaba. "
Explorer of Gor, pg. 454, by John Norman.

Lake Uschendi
"Tell me what you know of the Cartius," he said. "It is an important subequatorial waterway," I said. "It flows west by northwest, entering the rain forests and emptying into Lake Ushindi, which lake is drained by the Kamba and the Nyoka rivers. The Kamba flows directly into Thassa."
Explorer of Gor, pg. 16, by John Norman.

Stream of Torvald
The stream of Torvald is a current, as a broad river in the sea, pasangs wide, whose temperature is greater than that of the surrounding water. Without it, much of Torvaldsland, bleak as it is, would be only a frozen waste."
Marauders of Gor, pg. 55, by John Norman.

The Cartius Waterway
"Tell me what you know of the Cartius," he said. "It is an important subequatorial waterway," I said. "It flows west by northwest, entering the rain forests and emptying into Lake Ushindi, which lake is drained by the Kamba and the Nyoka rivers. The Kamba flows directly into Thassa. The Nyoka flows into Schendi harbor, which is the harbor of the port of Schendi, and moves thence to Thassa." Schendi was an equatorial free port, well known on Gor. It is also the home port of the League of Black Slavers. "It was, at one time, conjectured," said Samos, "that the Cartius proper was a tributary of the Vosk." "I had been taught that," I said."
Explorer of Gor, pg. 16, by John Norman.

The Kaiila River
"First, understand that there exists the Kaiila River, flowing generally in a southwestward direction."
Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 24, by John Norman.

The Northern Kaiila
At a given point, high in the territory of the Kaiila tribe, it branches into two rivers, The Northers Kaiila and the Southern Kaiila."
Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 24, by John Norman.

The Southern KaiilaAt a given point, high in the territory of the Kaiila tribe, it branches into two rivers, The Northers Kaiila and the Southern Kaiila."
Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 24, by John Norman.

Laurius River
"The Laurius is a winding, long, gentle, slow river. It does not have the breadth and current which are the terrors of the titanic Vosk farther to the south, well below Ko-ro-ba, though well above Ar, which is said to be the greatest city of all known Gor. The Laurius, like the Vosk, flows in a generally westernly direction, though the Laurius inclines more to the southwest than the great Vosk."
Captive of Gor, pg. 59, by John Norman.

The Nyoka River
"The Nyoka flows into Schendi harbor, which is the harbor of the port of Schendi, and moves thence to Thassa."
Explorer of Gor, pg. 16, by John Norman.

The Olni River
"The other cities of this confederation were Ti, Port Olni and Lara. All four of these cities lie on the Olni River, which is a tributary to the Vosk. Ti is farthest from the confluence of the Olni and Vosk; downriver from Ti is Port Olni; these were the first two cities to form a league, originally intended for the control of river pirates and the protection of inland shipping."
Fighting Slave of Gor, pg. 171, by John Norman.

The Snake River
The Snake, flowing in an almost southern direction, is a tributary of the Northern Kaiila."
Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 24, by John Norman.

The Tuka River
'On the Tuka the rowers were singing, lustily. It was not a song of Ar they sang, but a river song, a song of pirates and brawlers, 'The Ten Maids of Hammerfest,' in which is recounted the fates which befell these lovely lasses. '
Guardsman of Gor, pg. 93, by John Norman.

Ua River
"The Ua River is, literally, the Flower River."
Explorers of Gor, pg. 100, by John Norman.

"It is difficult to convey the splendor of the Ua's scenery to those who have not seen it. There is the mightiness of the river, like a great road, twisting and turning, occasionally broken with green islands, sometimes sluggish, sometimes shattered by rapids and cataracts, sometimes interrupted by flooding cascades of water, sometimes a few feet in height and sometimes towering upwards hundreds of feet, and then there is the jungle, its immensity and wildlife, and the vast sky above it."
Explorers of Gor, pg. 100, by John Norman.

The Vosk River
"As I crossed the Vosk, that mighty river, some forty pasangs wide. which hurtles past the frontiers of Ar to pour into the Timber Gulf, I realized that I was at last within the borders of the Empire of Ar."
Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 72, by John Norman.