Jebel Khayabir/Alexandria?/Antiochia?/Spasinou Charax?/Karkh Maisan?/[Astarabad Ardashir]?
settlement · 330 BC – 1999 AD
Close to Jebel Khayabir in Iraq, this site was an important mercantile center of southern Mesopotamia and capital of Characene. It may have been founded as an Alexandria by Alexander the Great and refounded as an Antioch by Antiochos IV.
![Jebel Khayabir/Alexandria?/Antiochia?/Spasinou Charax?/Karkh Maisan?/[Astarabad Ardashir]?](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hyspaosines.jpg)
- Coordinates
- 30.80934, 47.56280
- Also known as
- Alexandria, Antiochia, Astarabad Ardashir, Charax Spasinu (grc), Esterābād (ota), Jebel Khayabir (en), Jebel Khayabir (en), Karkh Maisan, Spasinou Charax, Spasinucarax (la), Spasinvcarax (la), Χάραξ Σπασίνου (grc), استرآباد (ota)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
- Wikidata · CC0 1.0Wikidata (CC0)