Charax, Bithynia

Charax in Bithynia was a Byzantine town in what is modern Turkey.

It is 25 kilometres from the former Byzantine Capital Nicomedia, between Nicomedia (Turkish: İzmit) and Helenopolis (Turkish: Hersek) in Bithynia, Asia Minor. It is located on the southern side of the Gulf of Astacus (Turkish: İzmit Körfezi) and is a possible site for the death of Constantine the great.[1]

References

  1. Richard W. Burgess, Witold Witakowski, Continuatio antiochiensis Eusebii, Franz Steiner Verlag publishers,page 244.

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