Araxes
Americannoun
noun
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By 2006, the cemetery had been smashed to pieces, with ancient grave markers dumped into the Araxes River, according to a report by Pickman in Archaeology magazine.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2020
To the east peasants watched their flocks in the valley of Araxes, allegedly the valley created "Eden" by Jehovah.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ebbas-Mirza, the Prince Royal of Persia, collected an army of 35,000 men on the banks of the Araxes.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
Principal rivers: the Aras or Araxes, and the Kizil-Uzen, which enter the Caspian; smaller streams discharge themselves within the province into the great salt lake of Urumiyah.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
In the latter part of his life, he conceived the idea that there might possibly be some additional glory and power to be acquired in subduing certain half-savage regions in the north, beyond the Araxes.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
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