Charax

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Chris de Lisle Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

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A settlement in Media, near the Caspian Gates (Sar-Darrah)

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/522956279

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
35.0066383922, 48.9437363082

Locations:

None

Names:

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Charax makes connections with:

Charax part of (regional) Media/Mad(aya) (region) (330 BC - 30 BC)
Charax part of (administrative) Seleucid Empire (330 BC - 30 BC)

Charax receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

Coloru 2023 203

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Chris de Lisle, 'Charax: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/522956279> [accessed: 08 October 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/522956279 |title=Places: 522956279 (Charax) |author=de Lisle, C. |accessdate=October 8, 2026 3:32 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}