Charax
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: David Braund Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: David Braund Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 20, 2024 12:09 AM
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History
Charax was a Scythian, and later, Roman, fortress founded on the Ai-Todor promontory near ancient Chersonesus in the third century BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226562
44.430727, 34.12825
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Χάραξ (Charax: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Charax part of (regional) Taurike Chersonesos (unspecified date range)
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fort, settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 23 H4 Charax
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ai-Todor
David Braund, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Diane Braund, and Tom Elliott, 'Charax: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226562> [accessed: 30 December 2024]
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