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Location:

  • Iraq, Tallkayf
  • geo:36.489445,43.119167
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -401

Class:

  • Site of historic event
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=24040

Annotations

The Battle of Cunaxa took place on September 3, 401 BC between Cyrus the Younger and his elder brother Arsaces. Battle finished with the victory for Artaxerxes II of Persia.

  1. Xenophon's Anabasis : books 1-4, Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1979, p. 44

Nearby

Tel Keppe [Kayf]

Assyrian town in northern Iraq.

Tell Derek (8 km)

Ancient Mesopotamian site.

Tarbīṣu [Tall Šarīf Ḫān] (9 km)

Tabirsu was very important town during Assyrian Empire.


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