Cunaxa

American  

[kyoo-nak-suh] / kyuˈnæk sə /

noun

1. an ancient town in Babylonia, near the Euphrates: famous battle between Cyrus the Younger and Artaxerxes II in 401 b.c.

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Cunaxa British  

/ kjuːˈnæksə /

noun

1. the site near the lower Euphrates where Artaxerxes II defeated Cyrus the Younger in 401 _bc

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Example Sentences

They clashed with the Persian forces at Cunaxa, near ancient Babylon.

From Time Magazine Archive

They p. 182were marched across Syria, crossed the present river Euphrates at the ford Thapsacus, and at Cunaxa, seven miles from Babylon, they met the enormous army which Artaxerxes had raised. 

From Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The death of Cyrus in the battle of Cunaxa in 401 put an end to his rebellion.

From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace

Here it was all vivid and real before my eyes, with the scene of the great battle of Cunaxa only a few miles from Museyib.

From War in the Garden of Eden by Roosevelt, Kermit

The place, then, in which the two armies were drawn out is called Cunaxa, being about five hundred furlongs distant from Babylon.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh