-- cf Schoff --> the word 'Charax' merely means "palisade", and there were several fortified towns that bore the name 'Charax'.
Journey Around Parthia by Isidore of Charax, a 1st-century geographer from the city of Charax on the northern end of the Persian Gulf, deals with the subject of pearl fishing.
After Phraates surmounted the Gates and established lodgment in the plain country beyond them, he resettled a portion of the Amardians from their mountain homes into the city of Charax, westernly of the Gates, probably on the site now occupied by the ruins known as Uewanikif.