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Title: Spanisou Charax and Its Commercial Relations
Subtitle: with the East through the Arabian Gulf
Author(s): BIN SERAY, Hamad
Journal: ARAM Periodical
Volume: 8    Issue: 1   Date: 1996   
Pages: 15-23
DOI: 10.2143/ARAM.8.1.2002181

Abstract :
Spasinou Charax was also known as Maysan, a name which has survived to the present time in Iraq.
Spasinou Charax, both as a city and as a state had several names:
(1) Charax is a Greek distortion of an Aramaic original, karkā, ‘surround’ or ‘fortified city’.
(2) Characene is the political name of the kingdom of Charax.
(3) Spasinou Charax (Σπασινου Χάρακ) is the Greek form of the Aramaic name. It means ‘the fortress (or city) of Hyspaosines’, who refounded the city and was its first independent ruler.
(4) Karkā de Maysān (the fortress of Maysān).
(5) Mesene (Μεσήνην) is the Greek form of Maysān, and Maysān is the Arabic form of the name.

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