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Charax Mediae

Charax Mediae (Ptol. 6.2.2), a town, according to Ptolemy, of the Cadusii, one of the tribes of Media Atropatene. It is thought by Forbiger to be the same as the modern Kesker.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.