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Araxes

American  
[uh-rak-seez] / əˈræk siz /

noun

  1. ancient name of Aras.


Araxes British  
/ əˈræksiːz /

noun

  1. the ancient name for the Aras

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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

You will embrace this regime although you love wine passionately, and although it may even be often necessary for you to go on the banks of the Phasis and Araxes.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

Euphrates went by now with smoother waves, and the Morini utmost of men, and the hornèd Rhine, the untamed Dahae, and Araxes chafing under his bridge.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Then Hystaspes went over the Araxes on his way back to Persia, to keep his son under guard for Cyrus.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max

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