- The Syr
Darya /ˌsɪər ˈdɑːrjə/ SEER-DAR-yə,
historically known as the
Jaxartes (/dʒækˈsɑːrtiːz/ jak-SAR-****,
Ancient Gr****: Ἰαξάρτης), is a
river in Central...
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Cophen 12
Jaxartes 11
Persian Gate 10
Uxians 9
Gaugamela 8
Alexandria 7 Gaza 6 Tyre 5
Issus 4
Miletus 3
Granicus 2
Pella 1 The
Battle of
Jaxartes was fought...
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Sogdiana with the
capture of Samarkand. The
latter opened the road to the
Jaxartes valley, and
during the last
years of his life
Qutayba led
annual campaigns...
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Bessus was executed. However, at some
point later when
Alexander was on the
Jaxartes dealing with an
incursion by a
horse nomad army,
Spitamenes raised Sogdiana...
- (99 mi),
which gave way to the
fertile regions around the
river Jaxartes. The
Jaxartes was
smaller than the Oxus and
easily fordable.
Immediately northeast...
- main
irrigated areas are
along the
eastern mountains,
along the Oxus and
Jaxartes Rivers and
along the
north flank of the
Kopet Dagh near the
Persian border...
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citizens of Samarkand. By 1217, he had
conquered all the
lands from the
river Jaxartes to the
Persian Gulf. He
declared himself shah and
demanded formal recognition...
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Great and his
Macedonian army
fought in the
Battle of
Jaxartes against the
Scythians along the
Jaxartes River, now
known as the Syr
Darya along the southern...
- Jand (also Jend), was a
medieval town on the
right bank of the
lower Jaxartes river in
Transoxiana in modern-day Kazakhstan. It was the
winter capital...
- Yakhsha/Vakhsha (and
Yakhsha Arta ('Upper Yakhsha'),
referring to the
Jaxartes/Syr
Darya twin
river to Amu Darya). In
Middle Persian sources of the Sasanian...
