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Isidore of Charax (/ˈɪzɪˌdɔːr/; Ancient Greek: Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Χαρακηνός, Isídōros o Charakēnós; Latin: Isidorus Characenus) was a Greek geographer of the...

Charax Spasinu, also called Charax Spasinou, Charax Pasinu, Spasinu Charax (Koinē Greek: Σπασίνου Χάραξ, romanized: Spasínou Kháraks), Alexandria (Ἀλεξάνδρεια)...

(1456–1462) Isidore of Kiev (1385–1463), Greek religious leader and theologian Isidore of Charax (fl. 1st century), Greek geographer Isidore of Alexandria...

guarded in the city of Asaak more than two centuries after his death, as reported by Isidore of Charax. This indicates that the act of declaring a king had...

however necessarily imply that chastity was a requirement of Anaitis priestesses. [ν] Isidore of Charax, in addition to a reference to the temple at Ecbatana...

including Thule.[failed verification] The name Albion was used by Isidore of Charax (1st century BC – 1st century AD) and subsequently by many classical...

rule of the Parthians." — Isidore of Charax, Parthians stations, 1st century CE. Original text in paragraph 19 of Parthian stations A theory of Croatian...

others 40, and yet others 30. In his 1st-century Parthian stations, Isidore of Charax "evidently [used for schoenus] the same measure as the Arabic parasang...

stone platform" had been associated with a comment by Isidore of Charax, that refers to a "temple of Artemis" (Parthian Stations 6). References to Artemis...

it the Aborrhas (Ἀβόρρας), and Isidore of Charax called it the Aburas (Ἀβούρας). It was described as a large river of Mesopotamia which rose in Mons Masius...

Similarly, Isidore of Charax, in the Parthian Stations, also credits its foundation to Alexander. Conversely, Appian includes Nikephorion in a list of settlements...

the acquisition of the territory by Chandragupta from Seleucus, is mentioned by Isidore of Charax. He describes Greek cities there, one of them called Demetrias...

extracts in other histories. Isidore of Charax, who lived during the reign of Augustus, provides an account of Parthian territories, perhaps from a Parthian...

1st-century AD Parthian stations itinerary, Isidore of Charax describes an "Alexandropolis, the metropolis of Arachosia", which he said was still Greek...

srnḳ) versions of the Achaemenid royal inscriptions, as well as in Greek Zarángai, Zarangaîoi, Zarangianḗ (Arrian; Isidore of Charax), and Sarángai (Herodotus)...

mentioned by Isidore of Charax in "The Parthian Stations". According to Isidore, they were bordered by Greek cities on the east (Alexandria of the Caucasus...

suggested a possible identification with the place named "Adrapana" by Isidore of Charax. Asadabad was an important royal site during the Sasanian period,...

the less-fortified lower town. As ancient sources such as Strabo, Isidore of Charax, Pliny, and Ptolemy distinctly differentiate between Artacoana and...

Roman Empire period Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Strabo (63 BC – AD 24) Pomponius Mela (fl. 40s AD) Isidore of Charax (1st century AD) Mucianus (1st...

Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and in the Gulf of Mannar (between Sri Lanka and India). A fragment of Isidore of Charax's Parthian itinerary was preserved in Athenaeus's...