Charax Spasinu
Ancient city · Iraq
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 30.895, 47.578
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient port at the head of the Persian Gulf, and the capital of the ancient kingdom of Characene
History
Charax Spasinu, also called Charax Spasinou, Charax Pasinu, Spasinu Charax, Alexandria (Ἀλεξάνδρεια) or Antiochia in Susiana, was an ancient port at the head of the Persian Gulf in what is now Iraq and the capital of the ancient kingdom of Characene.