Charax Spasinou

Characene

Charax Spasinou was a Hellenistic port city at the head of the Persian Gulf, in the region of Characene (Mesene) in southern Mesopotamia, in modern southern Iraq. It is the place from which the geographer Isidore of Charax took his name; he wrote the Parthian Stations, a survey of the overland route across the Parthian empire.