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unusual facts about Charax


Isidore of Charax

-- cf Schoff --> the word 'Charax' merely means "palisade", and there were several fortified towns that bore the name 'Charax'.


Pearl hunting

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.

Phraates I of Parthia

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.


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