Rhages

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Rhages is an ancient city of Media, near modern Tehran in Iran, known from classical and biblical sources as an important regional center.

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Label Occurrences
Rhages canonical 3

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city
archaeological site
countryDuringClassicalPeriod Media NERFINISHED
culture Median
Persian
describedAs important regional center
hasAlternativeName Ragae NERFINISHED
Rages NERFINISHED
Ragha NERFINISHED
Rai NERFINISHED
Ray NERFINISHED
Rayy NERFINISHED
Rhagae NERFINISHED
hasType biblical location
classical-era city
knownFrom biblical sources
classical sources
languageHistorical Median
Middle Persian NERFINISHED
Old Persian NERFINISHED
locatedIn Media NERFINISHED
locatedInPresentDay Iran NERFINISHED
locatedInRegion Tehran Province NERFINISHED
locatedNear Tehran NERFINISHED
locatedOn southern slopes of Alborz Mountains
mentionedIn Book of 1 Maccabees NERFINISHED
Book of 2 Maccabees NERFINISHED
Book of Judith NERFINISHED
Book of Tobit NERFINISHED
works of Isidore of Charax
works of Polybius
works of Ptolemy
modernSuccessorSettlement Rey NERFINISHED
Shahr-e Rey NERFINISHED
nearModernCity Tehran NERFINISHED
partOf Achaemenid Empire NERFINISHED
Parthian Empire NERFINISHED
Sasanian Empire NERFINISHED
Seleucid Empire NERFINISHED
ancient Near East NERFINISHED
region northern Iran NERFINISHED
religionHistorical Zoroastrianism NERFINISHED
significance administrative center of Media
commercial hub on east–west trade routes
situatedOnRoute ancient trade route between Mesopotamia and Central Asia
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
Classical antiquity
Late Antiquity

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rayy hasAlternativeName Rhages
Rey hasAlternativeName Rhages
Ray knownAs Rhages