Charax
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Charax may be:
- the Greek word for "pallisade," and the proper name of numerous fortified towns, including:
- Charax Sidae, somewhere near Seleucia in Mesopotamia
- Charax Spasinou, somewhere in the Tigris/Euphrates/Karun delta at the head of the Persian Gulf
- Charax Medea, in Upper Media, not far from present-day Tehran, Iran
- Charax Crimea, close to the present-day Gaspra, Ukraine
- Charax is also:
- Charax, a genus of fishes in the family Characidae
- Charax, a sharp-witted character in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
- Charax of Pergamum, properly Aulus Claudius Charax, a 2nd century Roman military tribune and author of a forty-volume Hellenica
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