Anthemusias
Ancient city · Iraq
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 36.765, 37.983
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: древний город в Месопотамии
History
Anthemusias or Charax Sidae was an ancient Mesopotamian town, according to Pliny and Strabo. Isidore of Charax says that it was 8 schoeni from Apamea near the Euphrates on the road to Seleucia, and Ptolemy places it “at the foot of a mountain called Caspius".