• Charax (Χάραξ) may refer to: Aulus Claudius Charax, a 2nd-century AD Roman senator and historian Charax, alternate name of Acharaca, an ancient oracle...
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    Charax Spasinu, also called Charax Spasinou, Charax Pasinu, Spasinu Charax (Ancient Greek: Σπασίνου Χάραξ), Alexandria (Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια) or Antiochia...
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    Charax (Ancient Greek: Χάραξ, gen.: Χάρακος) is the largest Roman military settlement excavated in the Crimea. It was sited on a four-hectare area at the...
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  • Isidore of Charax (/ˈɪzɪˌdɔːr/; Ancient Greek: Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Χαρακηνός, Isídōros o Charakēnós; Latin: Isidorus Characenus) was a Greco-Roman geographer of...
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  • Charax (Ancient Greek: Χάραξ) was an ancient place of the Cadusii people, in Cadusia, Media Atropatene on the Caspian Sea, north of Cyropolis. William...
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    Charax (Ancient Greek: Χάραξ), or Charakipolis, was a town of ancient Lydia, inhabited during Roman times. Its site is located near Karayakup in Asiatic...
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    Charax stenopterus is a small species of South American fish in the genus Charax. In the wild, Charax stenopterus usually grows to about 9.4 cm. Charax...
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  • Charax (/kæræks/; Ancient Greek: Χάραξ) was a Seleucid and Parthian town located in the province of Rhagiana, near the city of Rhaga (present-day Rey)...
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  • Charax (Ancient Greek: Χάραξ) was a town of ancient Pontus noted by Stephanus of Byzantium. Its site is unlocated. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol...
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    this genus: Charax apurensis C. A. S. de Lucena, 1987 Charax caudimaculatus C. A. S. de Lucena, 1987 Charax condei Géry & Knöppel, 1976 Charax delimai Menezes...
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  • Charax in Bithynia (Ancient Greek: Χάραξ της Βιθυνίας or Χάρακας της Βιθυνίας) was a Roman and Byzantine port town of ancient Bithynia, in what is now...
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  • Charax (Ancient Greek: Χάραξ) was an ancient fortress in Aetulane, Lesser Armenia. William Hazlitt (1851). The Classical Gazetteer. Vol. p. 106. v t e...
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  • Taurica, Charax became one of their strongholds. The Romans built a fortress and stationed a sub-unit (vexillatio) of the "Ravenna squadron". Charax was a...
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  • Anthemusias (redirect from Charax Sidae)
    Anthemusias (Greek: Ανθεμουσιάς) or Charax Sidae was an ancient Mesopotamian town, according to Pliny and Strabo. Isidore of Charax says that it was 8 schoeni...
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  • Charax Alexandri (Ancient Greek: Χάραξ Αλεξάνδρου) was a place in ancient Phrygia, near Celaenae, which was famed as a camp of Alexander the Great during...
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  • Charax (Ancient Greek: Χάραξ) was a fortress town of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly, on the left bank of the Peneus, at the entrance of the Vale of Tempe...
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  • Aulus Claudius Charax was a Roman senator and historian of the second century AD, who held a number of offices in the emperor's service. He served as suffect...
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    The glass headstander, (Charax gibbosus), is a species of fish in the genus Charax. commonly known as the transparent tetra. The glass headstander can...
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    Armenia; and Gather the Bactrians; and Mesa the Mesaneans; it is now called Charax Spasini. The first human traces are supported by the presence of Acheulean...
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    the head of the Persian Gulf mostly within modern day Iraq. Its capital, Charax Spasinou (Χάραξ Σπασινού), was an important port for trade between Mesopotamia...
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    Washukanni, Nineveh, Hatra, Assur, Nuzi, Palmyra, Mari, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Nippur, Isin, Lagash, Uruk, Charax Spasinu and Ur, from north to south....
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    North coast Akra Borysthenes Charax Chersonesus Dioscurias Gorgippia Hermonassa Kalos Limen Kepoi Kerkinitis Kimmerikon Myrmekion Nikonion Nymphaion Olbia...
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    his father to the court of King Abinergaos I of Characene in Charax Spasinu. While in Charax Izates became acquainted with a Jewish merchant named Ananias...
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    tells of various Palmyrene citizens honoured for holding office in Charax. Also, Charax's rulers' domains at the time possibly included the Bahrain islands...
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    the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2021. J. Hansamans, Charax and the Karkhen, Iranica Antiquitua 7 (1967) page 21–58 George Fadlo Hourani...
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  • in Basrah, southern Iraq. The site has been identified as the ruins of Charax Spasinu, once capital of the Messene Kingdom. This claim is based on the...
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    the Arsacid court to conquer Characene, then ruled by Hyspaosines from Charax Spasinu. When this failed, Hyspaosines invaded Babylonia in 127 BC and occupied...
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    Alexander. Plan of the archaeological site of Naysan, the probable location of Charax Spasinu While Philip II was besieging Perinthus, Alexander, as regent, subdued...
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    Calpe Canopus Cardia Cebrene Cenchreae Cenon Gallicanon Chalcaea Chalcedon Charax Charmidea Chelae on the Black Sea Chelae on the Asian coast of the Bosphorus...
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    Calpe Canopus Cardia Cebrene Cenchreae Cenon Gallicanon Chalcaea Chalcedon Charax Charmidea Chelae on the Black Sea Chelae on the Asian coast of the Bosphorus...
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