Charax Spasinu
ancient port at the head of the Persian Gulf, and the capital of the ancient kingdom of Characene
Facts
8 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- ancient city, ancient port[4]
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 30.895°, 47.578°, 🗺️ 30.898°, 47.567°, 🗺️ 30.895°, 47.578°[8][9]
More facts +4
- Described by source
- Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, Pauly–Wissowa[10][11]
- Product or material produced
- coin
🏷️ Also known as
en Alexandria on Tigris
en Mint of Charax Spasinou
en Charax Spasinu
en Charax Spasinou
ar خاراكس
de Charax-Spasinu
de Antiochia am Tigris
el Αντιόχεια (η Χάρακα)
el Σπασίνου Χάραξ
el Αλεξάνδρεια στη Σουσιανή
el Αλεξάνδρεια η εν Σουσιανή
es Alejandria de Susiana
es Alejandría de Susiana
fa کرخینیا
fr Alexandrie de Characène
fr Alexandrie de Susiane
fr Alexandrie du Tigre
fr Charax Spasinu
he כארקס ספאסינו
id Kharaks Spasinou
🔖 Identifiers · 12
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hyspaosines.jpg ↗
- Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
- 22654
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Charax
- Freebase ID
- /m/0d3z1k
- Kulturenvanteri monument ID
- 339017
- Museum-digital place ID
- 11536
- Münzkabinett ID
- location/3183
- Nomisma ID
- charax_spasinou
- Pleiades ID
- 912872
- Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID
- antioch-1
- ToposText place ID
- 309476UCha
- Trismegistos Geo ID
- 42178
🔗 Connections
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Capital of 1
Country 1
Described by source 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
People born here 1
Residents 1
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Summary
Charax Spasinu is an ancient city[1].
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History and Context
Things named after include Hyspaosines[5], -0209–-0124[13], of Characene[14]; Alexander the Great[6], a politician[15], -0356–-0323[16], of Macedonia[17]; and Antiochus IV Epiphanes[7], an aristocrat[18], -0215–-0164[19], of Seleucid Empire[20].