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- noun Plural form of
Chorasmian .
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Another embassy arrived from the Chorasmians living south of the Aral Sea, a people both Bessus and Spitamenes had courted to join in the rebellion against the Macedonians.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Another embassy arrived from the Chorasmians living south of the Aral Sea, a people both Bessus and Spitamenes had courted to join in the rebellion against the Macedonians.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Another embassy arrived from the Chorasmians living south of the Aral Sea, a people both Bessus and Spitamenes had courted to join in the rebellion against the Macedonians.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Of these the commanders were, Artabazos the son of Pharnakes of the Parthians and Chorasmians, Azanes the son of
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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This plain belonged once to the Chorasmians, and it lies on the borders of the
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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The Parthians and Chorasmians and Sogdians and Areians three hundred talents: this is the sixteenth division.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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This plain belonged once to the Chorasmians, and it lies on the borders of the Chorasmians themselves, the Hyrcanians, Parthians, Sarangians, and Thamanaians; but from the time that the Persians began to bear rule it belongs to the king.
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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The region immediately to the east of the Caspian, bounded on the north by the old course of the Oxus and extending eastward to the neighborhood of Merv, though probably not including that city, was Chorasmia, the country of the Chorasmians.
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Hyrcanians, the Arians of Herat, and the Chorasmians, or all the important nations of these parts except the Parthians.
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He said that they took part in the expedition of Xerxes against Greece (B.C. 480), serving in the army on foot under the same commander as the Chorasmians, and equipped like them with bows and arrows, and with spears of no great length.
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