Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Jaxartes? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
However, when, at some point later, Alexander was on the Jaxartes dealing with an incursion by a horse nomad army, Spitamenes raised Sogdiana in revolt.
Alexander personally defeated the Scythians at the Battle of Jaxartes and immediately launched a campaign against Spitamenes, defeating him in the Battle of Gabai.
Examples from Classical Literature
Sogdiana, the territory between the upper Oxus and upper Jaxartes, the latter dividing it from central Asia.
On the confusion of the Araxes and Jaxartes in Herodotus, see vol.
The valleys of the Oxus and jaxartes are very fertile, but the rest of the extensive province is almost a desert.
He was engaged victoriously in several combats with the Russians, who were pressing on from the jaxartes.
The real line of operations is rather to be sought along the left bank of the jaxartes.
In 1847 the Russians founded a fort at the mouth of the jaxartes or Syr-darya.
So Cyrus crossed the jaxartes, and pitched his camp when he had advanced some distance into the country of the enemy.
